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Anne O'Connell Solicitors
News 8th February 2018

County Council employee awarded €48,153.86

Workplace Relations Commission reference ADJ-00010004 - An employee v A local County Council - seeking adjudication under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. Facts The Complainant commenced employment as a Co-ordinator with the Respondent in September 2006. Funding...
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Anne O'Connell Solicitors
News 4th December 2017

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No.2) 2017

The bill introduces a new ground of discrimination, known as “mental health status”, which will be prohibited under the Employment Equality Act 1998 and Equal Status Act 2000. The Irish equality legislation will be amended to ensure that no person...
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Anne O'Connell Solicitors
News 16th March 2017

Incapacity dismissals & reasonable accommodation

In light of a number of recent decisions which made awards against employers and an employment agency for discriminatory dismissal on the ground of disability and the employers’ failure to reasonably accommodate the employee in question, this article sets out...
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