Employment

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The majority of Irish businesses are not fully prepared for pensions auto-enrolment, a survey by Mason Hayes & Curran has found. The business law firm surveyed 270 employers at its recent webinar, finding that most companies are still finalising plans, despite the scheme taking effect on 1 Janua

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Kane Tuohy partner Triona Cody reviews an Irish employment law case involving allegations of corporate espionage. The widely publicised, multijurisdictional legal proceedings between the international software company Rippling and its rival workforce management platform provider, Deel, Inc., alleged

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A migrant rights group is considering a High Court appeal after more than €23,000 in awards to a former restaurant worker were overturned by the Labour Court. The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) represented Suman Bhurtel, who is originally from Nepal and was working with an employment perm

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A manager in a financial services company who was dismissed for sexual harassment has been awarded €22,500 after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found that his dismissal was procedurally unfair. The complainant, who held the role of assistant manager and was considered “number tw

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A woman who was unfairly dismissed by a packaging manufacturer has been awarded nearly £88,000 by the Industrial Tribunal of Northern Ireland. Rosaleen Conway was employed by JMC Packaging Limited from 1 June 2022 until 20 October 2023, initially as chief financial officer and later as finance

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Anthony Fay considers how Big Tech companies like Meta could collide with Irish and EU law as they try to tackle sector-wide challenges. The first half of 2025 has been turbulent for the tech sector — marked by fines from the Irish Data Protection Commission, staffing recalibrations after pand

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Stakeholders have been invited to feed into a review of the employment permits occupations lists. The last review of the occupations lists took place in 2023, and resulted in 11 additional roles being placed on the critical skills occupations List, and 32 roles being made eligible for a general empl

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Former Labour Court chairman Kevin Foley has been appointed by the Department of Enterprise to lead a new advisory forum aimed at reducing the costs involving in running a business. The Cost of Business Advisory Forum, which brings together business owners, retailers, tourism operators, accounting p

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A pilot scheme in Northern Ireland is set to trial the use of AI to deal with more than a quarter of a million claims relating to the underpayment of holiday pay. The Labour Relations Agency (LRA) is currently facing a backlog of more than 250,000 registered cases involving 30,000 anticipated claima

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The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has made its first award for a breach of remote working legislation. Salesforce was ordered to pay €1,000 to employee Thomas Farrell after failing to respond to his formal remote working request within the statutory four-week deadline.

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