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.

The Feeling is not Mutual

The recent Supreme Court decision in The Revenue Commissioners v Karshan Midlands Ltd T/A Domino’s pizza. This article offers a précis of the recent Supreme Court ruling in The Revenue Commissioners v Karshan Midlands Ltd T/A Domino’s pizza [2023] IESC 24, and seeks to highlight some of its important points.

Employees or Contractors? Delivery Drivers and the Gig Economy | Karshan v Revenue Commissioners

By Kevin Bell BL