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The new Companies Act, 2014 (the "Act") was generally commenced with effect from 1 June 2015. As previously noted, the Act involves an overhaul of the existing company law regime in place since the 1960s.

The Pensions Authority has released its 2025 supervisory findings, revealing critical governance gaps that trustees must address before the upcoming scheme authorisation regime. With master trusts facing authorisation in 2027, followed by DC schemes in 2028 and DB schemes in 2029, the report's expectations around documentation, risk management, and active oversight will directly inform authorisation standards.

We hope that 2013 was a good year for you and your firm and that 2014 brings new opportunities and further success.

Defined benefit schemes (hereinafter DB schemes) provide members with retirement and death benefits based on formulae set out in the rules of the scheme.

The Pensions Authority will be focusing on underfunded DB schemes and on a programme of compliance activity.

Before leaving office, the Minister for Social Protection set the wheels in motion for auto-enrolment (AE) to launch in Ireland next year under the name "My Future Fund".

As we approach the final quarter of 2025, several significant employment law developments are on the horizon that will impact Irish employers across sectors.

This is the Winter 2019 update from our Pensions Group. This includes updates on the following topics:

The Social Welfare and Pensions Act, 2012 (the "2012 Act") was passed into law in February of this year. The 2012 Act amends the Pensions Act, 1990 in a number of ways.

In early January 2020, the Workplace Relations Commission (the "WRC") ordered the Irish State broadcaster, RTÉ, to pay €100,000 to a former employee following a finding ...

Our Pensions & Incentives Top 10 News Round-up offers a comprehensive and insightful overview of the most impactful regulatory developments that shaped the pensions landscape in 2024.

The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") came into effect on 25 May 2018. It was recommended in our January 2018 update (available here) that trustees undertake a number of actions

Irish employment law continued to evolve through 2025, with legislative movement across pay transparency, pensions, equality, and AI governance, alongside active adjudication before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)...

On 4 June 2024, EIOPA issued its final report, which contained its advice to the European Commission (Commission) on greenwashing risks and the supervision of sustainable finance policies (Report).

The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024Opens in new window (the "Act") was signed into law by the President on 9 May 2024...

The Workplace Relations Commission Annual Report (the "Report") highlights the key achievements, ongoing challenges and emerging trends in employment claims in Ireland.

The Pensions Authority has published the second and third tranches of a proposed four sets of codes of governance to be published in 2016 to help trustees of "DC Schemes" meet the Authority's standards of practice...