CIBA/EBA Joint Breakfast Briefing: Section 212 Applications under the Companies Act 2014

Join us with speakers Arthur Cunningham BL and Brian Conroy SC on the topic: Section 212 Applications under the Companies Act 2014.

EBA CPD: Just and Equitable? Compensation & Awards in the WRC

This event will consider the way compensation is evaluated and awarded in statutory employment law complaints before the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court.

This event is open to members only.

EBA CPD: What is a Worker? The EU Wider Implications of Karshan

This event will look at the wider implications of the Karshan decision, specifically, as it relates to employment law and EU Directives.

Please note this event is open to Law Library members only.

Understanding Domestic Violence Leave: Guide for Employers, Employees, & Advisors

By Paul D Maier BL

Eir told to give retired worker his job back and pay him for time he was gone

Telecoms company Eir has been ordered to give a 65-year-old worker forced into retirement earlier this year his job back and pay him for the time he was gone after losing an age discrimination claim.

20 Years Protecting Fixed-Term Employees: The Fixed-Term Work Act 2003

Fixed-term worker protection in Ireland got off to a particularly bad start with the State failing to implement and transpose the Directive until 14 July 2003, having substantially missed the deadline four years earlier which was provided for in the Fixed-Term Work Directive 1999/70/EC (the ‘Directive’).

It is against this backdrop that the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 (the ‘Act’) eventually transposed the Directive into Irish law, with the Act coming into effect on 14 July 2003 – 20 years ago.