by Insight Editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Mediation, Workplace Conflict
The Mediation Bill which has been around since 2012 was signed into law on the 2nd October 2017 as the Mediation Act 2017. It came into force on the 1st January 2018 with the Act reinforcing current provisions which recognise mediation in the Irish High and Commercial...
by Insight Editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Workplace Conflict, Workplace Investigations
Bullying, harassment and intimidation in the workplace are some of the most difficult people issues which organisations may have to deal with. Organisations can also have to contend with grievances from employees and disciplinary issues. Failure to address and resolve...
by Insight Editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Discipline and Grievances, Workplace Conflict
Every organisation experiences occasional breakdowns in communication and relationships. We often find that managers are too busy, not adequately trained or are too involved to handle this kind of situation effectively without some expert assistance. With an increase...
by Insight Editor | Sep 4, 2019 | Discipline and Grievances, Workplace Conflict
Bullying Lowered productivity. Industrial relations problems. Litigation. These are among the potential impacts for a company if it fails to deal adequately with an allegation of bullying. So this is no trivial matter and companies need to be adequately prepared in...
by Insight Editor | Jul 29, 2019 | Workplace Conflict
Employment related disputes can arise in all organisations between employees or between management and employees. And this can happen whether the environment is unionised or non-unionised. Dealing with these disputes is challenging on a number of fronts. Firstly,...
by Insight Editor | Jul 29, 2019 | Discipline and Grievances, Workplace Conflict
The conventional way of formally dealing with a consistently under-performing employee is to begin a disciplinary process. And the groundwork for being able to do this requires an employer to have in place a rigorous disciplinary process of which all employees have...
