by Insight Editor | Jun 27, 2016 | HR Support Services
Generation Z is the generation born between 1994 and 2010. The first wave will be entering the workforce in 2016 and employers need to understand how this generation will approach work. More than 3 in 4 believe they will need to work harder compared to past...
by Insight Editor | Feb 17, 2016 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services
Accidents in the workplace can be very costly to a company. In 2014, The Injuries Board made 12,420 awards to the value of over €281 million – that equates to on average over €22,500 per claim. The Injuries Board has seen a year on year rise in these claims over the...
by Insight Editor | Aug 21, 2015 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Outsourcing and Interim HR Placements, HR Support Services, Recruitment
There’s a new opening in your organisation. It enthuses Joan – one of your valued employees – and it looks like she’s going to take the position. But Joan is already in a valued role. To backfill Joan’s current position you launch a recruitment effort...
by Insight Editor | Jun 14, 2015 | Discipline and Grievances, Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services, Workplace Conflict
Relationships – we all have them. We all have familial relationships – and most of us also have romantic/sexual relationships. And, for better or for worse, these relationships occur in the workplace. It could be a small business run by a husband and wife team. Or...
by Insight Editor | Apr 22, 2015 | Discipline and Grievances, Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services, Workplace Conflict
It is typically not easy for an employer to lose a constructive dismissal – for a claim of constructive dismissal to succeed. Why? It’s because the burden of proof is on the employee to show that they were constructively dismissed. This is in contrast to an unfair...
by Insight Editor | Mar 31, 2015 | HR Support Services, Learning & Development
Last Friday – March 27th was National Workplace Wellbeing Day. It was Ireland’s first such day – having been launched just this past November by IBEC who highlighted that “the total cost to the economy of days lost through absence was around 11 million days”....
