Developments 31st July 2019

Significant ruling from UK Supreme Court on use of severance in Restrictive Covenants

Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 Facts: The Supreme Court in the UK recently handed down a landmark judgement in which a 6 month non-compete clause, while deemed overly restrictive, could still be enforced with the severance of...

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News 30th June 2019

Labour Court finds Employee was Constructively Dismissed without any Grievance Procedure Required due to Unjustifiable Suspension

On 11th June 2019, the Labour Court overturned a decision made by a Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) adjudicator in awarding an employee €15,000 for constructive dismissal.   Facts The Claimant, a warehouse manager commenced employment with the Respondent in June...

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News 30th June 2019

Labour Court awards maximum of €51,168 for discriminatory dismissal

Facts On 11th June 2019 the Labour Court awarded an employee €51,168 following discriminatory treatment she received when returning to work from maternity leave. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) awarded the Claimant €11,602.50 for the unfair treatment she received. Both...

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Insights 30th June 2019

Human Rights and Equality in the Workplace

Annual Report from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission On Monday 24th June, 2019, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (“the Commission”) which is now in its fourth year of work, launched its Annual Report to the Houses...

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Developments 30th June 2019

Further proposals to criminalise for the misclassification of workers

The private members Bill the Organisation of Working Time (Workers’ Rights and Bogus Self Employment (Amendment) Bill 2019 has been published. The purpose of this bill is to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 with the aim of...

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Developments 4th June 2019

Legislative Update

The Parental Leave ( Amendment) Act 2019 (the 2019 Act) On the 22nd May, the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 was signed into law and introduces two significant changes to parental leave entitlements: Increase in the unpaid parental leave entitlement...

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News 4th June 2019

Labour Court awards €15,000.00 to Tesco Employee for failure to take account of medical issues raised in Unfair Dismissal case.

Facts The Complainant was employed with the Respondent since 2004 and at the time of her dismissal was working on the Customer Service Desk. Between June and July 2017, on three occasions a transactional discrepancy arose while the Complainant was...

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News 4th June 2019

Employee awarded €1,000 for Unfair Dismissal in WRC due to his Significant Contribution to his Dismissal

On 16th May 2019, the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) found the dismissal of the Claimant was substantively fair but procedurally unfair and awarded the Claimant €1,000 in compensation.   Facts The Claimant was employed by an employment agency and was placed...

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News 4th June 2019

Labour Court overturns WRC’s award of €12,500 for discriminatory dismissal on the age ground

On 12th May 2019 , the Labour Court overturned a decision made by a  Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”) adjudicator who granted an employee €12,500 in compensation for discriminatory dismissal on the ground of age.     Facts The Claimant commenced employment...

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News 4th June 2019

Employer’s failure to reasonably accommodate new employee cost them 18 months’ salary

In the case of a Worker v Airline Service Company, the Complainant was awarded €15,000 by the WRC (18 months’ salary) in compensation over his discriminatory dismissal due to his dyspraxia. Summary The Complainant commenced part time employment with the...

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