Many employees will indicate to their solicitor, the dismissal was predetermined from the outset, that they never got a fair crack of the whip in terms of the investigation or disciplinary process. In essence, an employer made their mind up regarding the employees position at a particular point in time, and the subsequent internal processes …
If an employee has a safety concern about a return to work and an employer requires the person to attend the workplace and this situation is not dealt with internally, it can lead to a circumstance where an employee feels forced to resign, who may then bring a claim for unlawful dismissal against the employer. …
In essence, an employers obligation regarding the provisions of the Health and Safety legislation and a common law duty of care, are the same while the person is working from home, as it is when they are physically at the employer’s premises. Now employees have a whole host of difficulties trying to manage work-life from …
For a person to be covered by the Act, they must have been an employee of the employer who terminated their employment. This sounds obvious, except there is a difference when it comes to ‘agency worker’ and things can get more complicated. Sometimes a person considers they were an employee of an employment agency and …
Workplace Investigations Process The employee may never have faced a workplace investigation meeting before and has no idea what to expect. A workplace investigation process is evidently not a court setting, but it is nevertheless correct to say that it is of the utmost importance to seek to establish the truth of factual events in …
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What is Disability Discrimination in Ireland? Disability discrimination is when a person ie an employee who has a disability is mistreated in comparison with an employee a without a disability in the same situation or circumstance. They are in essence treated differently and not in a positive way. They are treated less favourably than that …
