Employment

A law firm has been ordered to pay nearly €26,000 to a woman who was dismissed because of her age, The Irish Times reports. The woman, then 67 and now 68, brought a case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after she was dismissed by the unnamed solicitor's firm in January 2018.

A bus company has been directed to reinstate a part-time school bus driver whose contract of employment was terminated in August 2017. The company accused the driver of stealing parts, however the driver maintained that he had permission to take the parts and did so openly.

A man who was subjected to bullying by a senior member of staff has been awarded €26,000 in compensation in the Workplace Relations Commission. Describing the events, some of which had been filmed and posted on Facebook, as "an extraordinary culture of behaviour in the workplace", Adjudication

Employment lawyer Cathy Maguire has suggested that schoolgirls could challenge sexist uniform rules through the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the Irish Independent reports. Ms Maguire, a barrister who specialises in labour and employment law, said girls who didn't want to wear skirts could b