Month: August 2019
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Important Lessons from High Court Fixed Term Contract Case
A recent High Court case involving a teacher and a school board of management in an employment dispute is worth looking at. The case is The Board of Management of Malahide Community School v Conaty [2019] IEHC 486 and you can read the full decision of the High Court here. The High Court decided that…
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Guidance from the Supreme Court in the ‘Nano Nagle’ Reasonable Accommodation Case
The recent Supreme Court decision in the ‘Nano Nagle’ is worth a closer look by both employers and employees who are concerned with what is expected by way of ‘reasonable accommodation’ for an employee with a disability. This obligation on an employer to provide ‘reasonable accommodation’ to an employee is set out in section 16…
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Courts Will Not Intervene When WRC Can Handle Employment Dispute
The Court of Appeal will not interfere in an employment dispute when there is a statutory regime in place to deal with the row. This was confirmed again recently in a case involving a solicitor who asked the High Court and the Court of Appeal to intervene in his problem concerning his proposed redundancy. Background…
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Counter-offers in the Formation of Binding Contracts-What You Should Know
I am occasionally contacted by employees who have attempted to negotiate a contract of employment but difficulties have arisen and they want to sue for breach of contract. The first thing that needs to be addressed, however, is whether a binding, enforceable contract has been entered into between the employee and the employer with whom…