Bereavement Leave Bereavement Leave is an issue which employers need to address. The death of a close relative may have a significant impact on an employee. Most employers will wish…

Extension of Time In case EDA 1913 being a case about an employer and a worker the Labour Court had to deal with an issue where the employee in this…

Bringing Claims Out Of Time In case ADJ19604 the AO dealt with a complaint about the issue relating to the payment of wages cover the period from the 24th April…

Time Limit to Bring Complaints to the WRC In case ADJ14610 being a case of an Administration Co-ordinator and a Health Care Provider an issue arose as to whether a…

Sectoral Employment Order (Construction Sector) 2019   S.I. 234/2019 The new Order provides now for increased rates of pay from the 1st October 2020. The craft rate rises to €19.96…

Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 This case being ADJ-13317 concerned a security officer and an Event Company. The case involved a situation where the employee had been employed…

Employee Forced Retirement In EDA1916 being the case of Louth County Council and Mary Clarke the Labour Court has taken the time to set out the relevant legislation being Sections…

Pregnancy Related Dismissal The issue of pregnancy related dismissal arose in a case of a hairdresser and a hair salon ADJ-16046. While the employee won the case the AO in…

Disability Discrimination Case EDA1914 is useful in that this issue was addressed by the Labour Court. The court set out that the question of reasonable accommodation is the subject of…

Redundancy Payments Act, 1967 – Claiming Too Soon In case ADJ18522 an employee was advised that she was going to be made redundant. The notice was dated the 14th October…