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The Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") has published a new Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Right to Disconnect ("Code").

On 1 January 2016 the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2015 (2015 Act) was enacted. This Act has helped bring a degree of clarity to the use of compulsory retirement ages in the workplace.

In light of the prevailing situation regarding the coronavirus, many employers are asking whether they can place employees on lay-off or short-time. In this briefing we ...

The Government has published the Employment Equality Act 1998 (Section 20A) (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2022, the long awaited regulations under the Gender Pay Gap (Information) Act 2021.

Two significant cases from the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") impact the way in which employees who are absent from work accrue annual leave.

In the Woolworths case, thousands of redundancies were made across various Woolworths' stores in the UK.

In March 2024, the High Court, on appeal from an inquiry held by the Fitness to Practice Committee of the Medical Council...

The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024 has been signed into law.

More than 4 years after the introduction of the Public Works Contracts ("the Contracts"), parties are now familiar with their provisions.

To recap, under the Employment Equality Acts, 1998 to 2011 (the "EEAs"), it does not constitute discrimination on the grounds of age for employers to fix mandatory ages for retirement of employees.

Ireland is one of the few advanced European countries without a statutory mandatory employer sick pay scheme.

The EU Platform Work Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2831) represents a significant development in the regulation of digital labour platforms.

Provisional agreement has been reached on new rules governing the operation of European Works Councils ("EWCs"). Some technical steps are required before the revisions come into force but we now have a good idea of the outcome of this lengthy negotiation process.

Permanent TSB v Christopher Callan was a rare example of a dismissal case relating to fitness and probity in the regulated financial sector and was the focus of a briefing earlier this year

As mentioned in our previous GDPR update, the eighth update in this series will deal with the topic of mandatory breach notifications from an employment law perspective ...

Employers are urged to exercise renewed care when considering the tax treatment of out of court settlements reached with employees in respect of breaches of employment law on foot...

An employee who was dismissed for breach of fitness and probity standards has succeeded in his unfair dismissal claim against his employing bank ...