Reforms to the current legislation that governs sick pay in Ireland are being floated by Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton. The st... Read More
02 March 2012 By Keith Lowther
Employers who are faced with a claim with respect to an employee may find themselves in front of the (EAT) Employment Appeals Tribunal and it has n... Read More
03 February 2012 By Keith Lowther
The Government has introduced draft legislation to give effect to the EU Directive on Temporary Agency Work which applies with effect from 5 Decemb... Read More
On the 06th September 2011, a meeting of over 50 members of the Security Institute took place in Naas, Co. Kildare. This meeting, held in con... Read More
The Government announced on the 16th December 2011 that the current restriction on access to the Irish labour market for Bulgarian and Romanian nat... Read More
Joint Labour Committees (JLCs) are committees established under the Industrial Relations Act 1946 for the purpose of proposing wage agreements whic... Read More
Corbett -v- Bus Eireann (DEC-E2011-184) Facts: The dispute arose in relation to the complainant, who claimed that he was subjected to disc... Read More
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, announced on the 1st of July 2011, a plan for the major restructuring of the empl... Read More
In what has been an on-going story of the past number of weeks, Anglo Irish Bank, now known as The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, has been inst... Read More
We all know that employment law is a minefield. Sometimes it may feel like there is legislation for everything and often there are lots of ‘buzz-words... Read More
On Wednesday the 4th of January 2012 the Health and Safety Authority released figures for workplace deaths in 2011. Unfortunately the figure had in... Read More
The deadline for transposition of the EU Agency Workers Directive has been and gone (5th December 2011) and an agreement was not reached between th... Read More
23 December 2011 By Keith Lowther