Employment

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Paul Rochford as a partner in the firm's employment law and benefits team. Mr Rochford, previously a senior associate with the firm, practises in the area of employment and education law in the private and public sectors.

A line manager at a bank has been awarded €7,500 in compensation for the organisation’s failure to properly address a formal grievance she raised about being undermined in her ability to manage a new employee. Stating that the 15-month delay in dealing with the formal grievance had exacer

A consultant psychiatrist has been awarded €4,000 after it was found that he was penalised for making a protected disclosure about the clinical performance of a colleague. Ordering the employer to pay compensation for penalising the complainant, Adjudication Officer Kevin Baneham found tha

A man who brought a case to the Workplace Relations Commission seeking redress for discrimination on the grounds of gender has had his complaint dismissed. The man complained that he was not allowed to use a room designated for use by females only and that he was being discriminated against since th

Draft legislation providing for two weeks' paid parent's leave for each working parent of a child has been published. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said up to 60,000 people could benefit within a year from the scheme, which he hopes to roll out by the start of November.

A new legal code of practice will be brought forward by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to promote greater employment of disabled people, the body has said. Once completed, the code, prepared under the Commission's statutory powers, will be legally admissible in evidence in court, Wor

A man who was terminated without notice after working with a machinery manufacturing company for nearly a year has been awarded €15,000 in the Workplace Relations Commission. Finding that the company was in breach of the Employment Equality Acts, Adjudication Officer Ray Flaherty

A farm manager who was employed by a food company for over ten years before he was summarily dismissed has had his complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 dismissed. The complainant alleged that his dismissal was based on his refusal to sign fraudulent claim forms for EU payments, and that th

A university lecturer has had her request for the re-run of an allegedly unfair and biased promotions scheme refused by the Workplace Relations Commission. However, stating that she was “struck by the lack of a formalised detailed processes that would be expected around a promotions scheme suc

Irish employers face legal, business and reputational risk if they are not in compliance with recently introduced and upcoming protective leave legislation, William Fry has warned. The firm recently hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of work-life integration, addressing protective leave and

A lecturer who was subject to sexual harassment by students in her class has been awarded €10,000 in the Labour Court. Finding that Waterford Institute of Technology “did not take such steps as were reasonably practicable to prevent sexual harassment and harassment based on gender”

A woman who applied for trainee solicitor posts in Dublin has lost her complaints against firms which she said had discriminated against her on grounds of gender, age and civil status. The woman brought claims against multiple Irish law firms, complaining, inter alia, that males are preferred over f

Former Labour Court chair and barrister Dr Kevin Duffy has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by UCD Sutherland School of Law. As a senior trade unionist, Dr Duffy represented the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) in negotiations with the Department of Labour which resulted in the

The Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) has launched the first in a new series of podcasts on key issues in employment law. The first episode of the podcast, now available for download, features an interview with the association's current chair, Peter Murphy, partner at Dublin-based O'Mara

The PSNI will attempt to appeal a landmark ruling on holiday pay directly to the UK Supreme Court, according to reports. The Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled in June that PSNI officers can pursue claims for holiday pay from the date of commencement of the Working Time Regulations (NI) 1998, and are