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When the State itself gets things wrong, I ask : how?

The other day I wrote about the Employment (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2018 which this month comes into operation and makes very serious changes to employment rights and so it impacts on casual contracts, tries to do away with zero hours contracts, imposes new...

Zero hour contracts to become a thing of the past!

When the Employment (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2018 comes into operation on the 25 March 2019, employment contracts must ensure that contracts are for a certain number of hours of work greater than zero. This requirement will not apply in limited circumstances,...

No CID Entitlement Despite Breach by Employer

In accordance with its EU obligations, Ireland was required to establish a framework to prevent abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts. In doing so, Irish legislation now sets out that a fixed-term employee cannot be employed on 2 or...

Compensation Awarded to AWOL Employee Unfairly Dismissed

Background The complainant had been employed by the respondent company as a Warehouse Manager for just over 18 years when he was dismissed on allegations of gross misconduct. On October 30th the complainant received a call from his wife, who was trapped in her home...

CEO Whistleblower – How Important now are Protected Disclosures?

You will have seen from the news that the Chief Executive of Independent News and Media (INM) made a protected disclosure under the Whistleblower legislation in respect of a proposed bid by the company for Newstalk, which is a radio station owned by Denis O’Brien who...

Paul McGinley urges women to ‘network to top’

Paul McGinley, the victorious 2014 Ryder Cup golf captain, has compared the challenge facing women aiming for top positions in business to his own campaign to come “from the back of the pack” to gain the captaincy ahead of better-known rivals. Mr McGinley was speaking...