If you are an employer, you cannot be too careful about the questions you ask at the interview stage of the recruitment process. Two recent decisions from the WRC (Workplace Relations Commission) give us a blunt reminder on this point. Where are you from? One employer was ordered to pay €1,500 to an unsuccessful candidate …
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Laid off? Dismissed? An employee has won €10,000 in the Labour Court for unfair dismissal against a jeweller business where the employer claimed the employee was not dismissed but laid off. The employee’s case at the Workplace Relations Commission at first instance had failed. He appealed that decision to the Labour Court. The employee in …
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The employee in this case was 68 years of age when his employment was terminated on the grounds of age. James Spencer claimed there was no compulsory retirement in the workplace, and others had been permitted to work past the age of 68. The employer claimed there was a company retirement age of 66. The …
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This WRC case between Kieran Murray and Sherry Garden Rooms Limited is an interesting one. There are two significant decisions made by the adjudicator in arriving at the calculation of the employee’s financial loss. One has to do with the statutory redundancy lump sum received by the employee on termination of employment; the other is …
The Sick Leave Bill 2022 has been published and has commenced its way through the legislative process. When this bill is enacted as a statute it will provide a statutory entitlement to paid sick leave in Ireland for the first time. The skinny An employee with 13 weeks’ continuous service will have a statutory right …