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2026 is set to be another significant year for Irish employment law, with important developments in pay transparency, retirement, and equality on the horizon.

After an icy start to the New Year we thought it timely to take a look at employers' obligations in relation to temperatures in the workplace. The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 ("the 2007 Regulations") which were introduced pursuant to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 ("the 2005 Act"), deal with the issue of temperatures in the workplace.

The Irish government has made significant changes to the Employment Permit Regulations, some of which are effective immediately.

In September 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR) overturned a January 2016 decision of its lower court regarding employee privacy in the workplace.

Unrestricted use of email, social media and file hosting services can have damaging effects on employers’ reputation and business.

The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2023 (Collective Redundancies Amendment Act) came into operation on 1 July 2024.

We represented the Board of Management of a school in its successful appeal against a High Court decision which awarded a Special Needs Assistant at the school €255,000 for alleged bullying in the workplace.

Companies that deploy security systems which require employee biometric data, such as fingerprints, to validate and record access to restricted areas must consider how they will process this data...

Employers will be required to include the remuneration or the expected pay range for the role in its job advertisements.

The Government has announced that certain new employment rights for parents and carers, conferred by the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 will come into effect on Monday, 3rd July 2023.

This note sets out a brief summary of what we know about the proposed system so far, where the legislation is currently at, what other steps towards auto-enrolment have been taken and whether action...

On 25 March 2021, the Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 was passed by Dáil Éireann and was signed into law over the weekend.

The Irish Supreme Court has ruled that the HSE acted fairly and reasonably as an employer in suspending a consultant doctor after he had performed experiments on a number of patients without their consent.

The Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 ("the Act") came into effect as of the 4 March 2019. The Act aims to improve the security and predictability of working hours for employees

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (2023 Act) was enacted on 4 April 2023 and many of the provisions have recently commenced.

Posted Workers are people who normally work in one EU Member State but, for a limited time, are assigned to carry out work in Ireland.

In December 2020 an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (AO) issued his decision in the case of Yvonne O'Rourke v Minister for Defence...

It's that time of the year when employment law changes traditionally take effect, and this year there have been significant increases in several rates and limits. Here is our summary of the most important changes.