In a recent Irish Employment Appeals Tribunal case the Tribunal had to consider whether the Claimant had been constructively dismissed. The Claimant was an employee of the Respondent Company having commenced initially in 2007 as an apprentice and thereafter continuing...
If you thought bullying just happens in the schoolyard you would be very wrong, and frighteningly, is quite common within the workplace. Bullying can have a devastating effect on the victim, it almost always leads to absence from work, and it is not unusual for the...
Employees are absent from work for many reasons, however employees’ absences become an issue for employers when those absences are unauthorised absences, or where the employee is frequently absent from work on particular days of the week, for example where the...
Earlier this week, it was reported that a Spanish au pair was awarded approximately €10,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission in back pay and compensation after a five month stint in an Irish host family’s home, as it was found that an au pair is an employee and...
This is a question we often get from employers and the easy answer is that there is no “normal” retirement age. Contracts of employment commonly provide for a retirement age of 65 but that is not the end of the issue – far from it! EU law has now been introduced to...
