On 20 December 2023, the outcome of a Review of the Occupations List was published which made several important recommendations.

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.

A recent decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal held that a letter drafted for an employee for social welfare purposes stating that the employer "had no work available at present" was...

Two separate unfair dismissal cases, where the complainants were awarded approximately €120,000 each, serve as a cautionary tale for employers and highlight the importance of affording employees whose roles are...

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) recently made an award of €120,000 to a former employee (Complainant) of the Irish based sales operation of Econocom Digital Finance Ltd (Econocom).

As cases of Covid-19 continue to spread and the Irish Government has ordered all non-essential businesses to close...

Following An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's announcement on Friday, 27 March 2020 that people are now required to stay at home until Sunday, 12 April 2020, Deirdre Crowley, partner and Denise Moran, associate, ...

Several high-profile cases, including those involving Clerys and Debenhams, brought inadequacies of the existing collective redundancy legislation into focus in recent years.

A year after the commencement of COVID-19 restrictions in Ireland, decisions of the Workplace Relations Commission are now issuing with respect to initial cost-saving measures taken by employers in response to the crisis.

The Terms of Employment (Information) Acts 1994 and 2001 specifically provide that an employer is obliged to provide an employee with a statement in writing no later than two months after the commencement of employment containing certain particulars in relation to his or her employment.

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.

Partner and Head of Employment, Susan Battye, authored the "Ireland: Employment & Labour Law" chapter in the Legal 500 and the In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide (3rd edition).

Regulations have been published setting out new "on the spot" fines that can be imposed on employers by a Workplace Relations Commission...

Following the recommendations of the National Public Health Emergency Team, which have been approved and adopted by the Government on Monday 19 October, Dublin will now move to Level 5...

Redundancies are not a new phenomenon for employers in Ireland, but there has been a notable increase in recent months, particularly in the tech sector, that has dominated media headlines.

In this advisory we explain the new measures which are designed to support workers and ease the burden on businesses if employees cannot attend work due to the impact of Covid-19.

On 31 July 2020, new law came into force which changed the way redundancy pay is to be calculated for furloughed employees.

Following the recommendations of the National Public Health Emergency Team, which have been approved and adopted by the Government this evening...