Are you concerned about the use of cameras in the workplace? Hidden cameras? If you are a recent European Court of Human Rights decision will disappoint and dismay you. The case López Ribalda and others v Spain was an appeal from decision of the lower Chamber that the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights … Read more
Employee or self employed? This was the case of a medical doctor with his own practice who claimed he was an employee in respect of his work for a training provider. This is a common issue: whether an individual was an employee or was self-employed, notwithstanding the statement in a contract that the individual was … Read more
I have been involved in two discrimination cases which have been finalised in the last few weeks. The outcomes of the cases, coincidentally, are similar and have culminated in compensation for both employees. The first one involved a case of sexual harassment in the workplace and resulted in a compensation payment, tax free, of €30,000. … Read more
Have you been tempted to engage the services of a private investigator to carry out surveillance on one of your employees? Perhaps you are trying to gather evidence of breach of a restrictive covenant in the contract of employment? Or maybe you want to ascertain if an employee is working somewhere else or carrying on … Read more
I took a quick look through the latest decisions from the WRC this morning. There is a facility on the WorkplaceRelations.ie website which allows you to see the latest decisions and the week in question is from the 23rd September 2019 to 29th September 2019. I only glanced at about 5 decisions but of those … Read more