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”....
by Insight Editor | Mar 18, 2015 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services
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by Insight Editor | Feb 11, 2015 | HR Support Services
All EU member states are required to implement an EU Business Transfers Directive. The directive was issued in 2001. Its purpose? To protect employees when there is a transfer from the organisation in which they’ve been employed – the “transferor” – to a new...
by Insight Editor | Jan 7, 2015 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) aims to secure compliance with employment rights legislation through inspection and prosecution services. These services were formerly operated by the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA). Under the Workplace Relations...
by Insight Editor | Sep 24, 2014 | Discipline and Grievances, Workplace Conflict
An employer had an employee about whom a colleague has made a complaint. The nature of the complaint? The employee was “preaching religion to his work colleagues and to members of the public”. The employee did not deny this. The employer gave him a verbal warning...
by Insight Editor | Jun 18, 2014 | HR Support Services
This post is the 4th in a 4-part series on Information and Consultation Forums (ICFs). The first post outlined some reasons for proactively establishing an ICF and also described the benefits that can flow from having an ICF in the workplace. The second post...
by Insight Editor | May 31, 2014 | HR Support Services
This post is the 3rd in a series on Information and Consultation Forums (ICFs). The first post outlined the reasons for proactively establishing an ICF and also described the benefits that can flow from having an ICF in the workplace. The second post discussed how to...
by Insight Editor | Apr 29, 2014 | HR Support Services
Last month’s post described the reasons for proactively establishing an Information and Consultation Forum (ICF) in a business – as well as the benefits that can flow from having an ICF in the workplace. But to get to that point we now need to look at the mechanics of...
by Insight Editor | Mar 31, 2014 | Employment Law Compliance, HR Support Services
Irish employers are faced with a large and increasing raft of employment legislation. These pieces of legislation can result from Government initiatives. Others have arisen from the need to update or replace earlier legislation. But the triggers are not all internal...
