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An appeal which would have allowed the same-sex partner of a college lecturer to access his pension after death is dismissed.

The use of emails by an employer discovered in the course of an employee disciplinary investigation does not amount to an unjustified interference with that employee’s private life.

We recently represented the Board of Management of a school in its successful appeal against a High Court decision awarding €255,000 for the alleged bullying of a special needs assistant by school management.

The role of the Labour Court (the Court) can be broadly divided between its industrial relations work (those issues coming to the Court under the provisions of the Industrial Relations Acts), and its employment rights work.

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "CBI") has recently published a Prohibition Notice prohibiting an individual from performing any controlled function in any regulated financial service provider for a period of two years.

Employers should note a recent High Court award of €824,000 to former army captain Diane Byrne due to breaches of equal treatment principles.

Employers should be wary of leaving themselves open to claims of failure to fairly and consistently apply their own disciplinary procedures.

The Court of Appeal has issued an interesting judgment in relation to an employment injunction where the employee had been dismissed while on probation.

A recent High Court decision has caused some concern amongst lawyers and HR practitioners by declaring a right to legal representation and a right to cross-examine evidence in a workplace investigatory meeting.

There has been much hype over the course of the last few days about the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") decision in the Barbulescu case.

A recent decision of the Labour Court serves as a useful reminder to employers that there is another route other than the Unfair Dismissals Acts by which an aggrieved employee can claim against an employer for a dismissal.

In a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, an employee was dismissed after getting into an altercation with another member of staff at an office Christmas party.

A recent Labour Court decision highlights the importance of specifying retirement ages in contracts of employment. The Court found that dismissing an employee for their age was an act of discrimination.

There is a growing temptation amongst Claimants to issue injunctive proceedings in the High Court for wrongful dismissal with the aim of expediting a hearing.

We look at the distinction between employees and independent contractors in light of the recent cases against "on demand" technology companies.

On July 31, 2019, in the case of Nano Nagle School v Daly, the Supreme Court of Ireland delivered its decision in a long-running disability discrimination lawsuit between a paraplegic

It must be decided whether the Workplace Relations Commission has jurisdiction to make a ruling regarding the mandatory age bracket of new entrants into the Irish police service.