Driving testers announce work stoppage next week over uninsured vehicle concerns
Fórsa said RSA staff will engage in indefinite action if test candidates cannot produce valid insurance certificates
Workplace Relations Commission
Sick pay award of €500 by WRC to pharma employee overturned on appeal
Labour Court finds in favour of employer SK Biotek in case concerning legislation covering statutory payment
Lawyers for former Apple employee cite ‘vulgar’ working environment amid unfair dismissal complaint
Vinicius dos Santos was sacked for gross misconduct from the tech giant’s offices in Cork last May
Why more people are working beyond 65 and what the new rules will mean for them
The Workplace Relations Commission is working on guidelines on how new legislation on working to the age of 66 will be interpreted
Technician dismisses claims that he drove company van under influence of drugs
Company says €1,650 owed to worker is available to him at office in cash but tells WRC he caused €3,500 damage to van
Use of ‘beep test’ to measure firefighters’ fitness discriminates against women, tribunal finds
Standard physical ‘beep test’ described as ‘cheap and dirty’ way of assessing aerobic capacity
Former lifeguard who rejected redeployment as traffic warden loses discrimination claim
Labour Court finds Edward Bourke was not subject to less favourable treatment by Kilkenny County Council
Student with Down syndrome fails in disability discrimination case against NCAD
Ellie Dunne, who had enrolled in fine art degree programme, claimed college did not provide necessary supports and accommodation
Veteran Avoca head chef sacked for ‘falsified’ fridge record made ‘genuine mistake’
WRC hears that employee was under ‘extraordinary pressure’
State secures closed hearing in senior Garda detective’s whistleblower claim
Brian O’Reilly claims he was denied acting-up allowance as penalisation for raising protected disclosures
Lawyers for Trinity to produce statistics showing it is ‘not a racist university’
Workplace Relations Commission to hear complaint against college from historian who claims its lawyers are trying to ‘gag’ him
Tesco bosses’ failure to search bins for missing €20 before sacking worker a ‘fatal’ error
WRC adjudicator found that there was no dishonesty on the part of the employee
Businessman ‘surprised’ finance director didn’t agree to 60% salary cut
Employee had previously told boss she was pregnant and was planning on taking maternity leave, WRC hears
Imminent work to rule by HSE physiologists called off to allow for more talks
Action had been due to start on Friday morning but was deferred on Thursday evening
Hertz car-hire ordered to pay blind woman €10k over valet fee for guide-dog soiling
Workplace Relations Commission upholds complaint against company alleging disability discrimination
Tusla whistleblower claims put forward to Public Accounts Committee for examination
Internal review in 2018 raised financial management issues at child and family agency facility in Cork
Barnardos children’s charity accused of ‘ploy’ to shut down employment dispute
Former worker says 2021 redundancy was an unfair termination of her employment
Central Bank settles alleged whistleblower case with sacked forensic investigator
Employee complained of alleged ‘ill treatment by a manager’
Aer Lingus pilot accuses airline of ‘witch hunt’ against him
Employee told colleagues that files including birth certs, private emails and police records relating to staff were openly accessible on the airline’s internal computer systems
Tusla ‘failed to show lawful basis for processing whistleblower’s data’, watchdog finds
Ciarán Kenneally resigned from role with agency in 2019 after making protected disclosure
New code of practice on part-time work signed into law
Code aimed at expanding flexible working options and increasing labour‑market participation
Former Inland Fisheries Ireland chief begins case at Workplace Relations Commission
Fisheries agency has had troubled history in recent years with a number of reviews and investigations
Nurses at Naas General Hospital set to take industrial action over ‘frustration, burnout’
INMO serves notice of action due to start on February 9th over unsafe staffing levels
Shop worker with heart condition let go for taking too much sick leave gets €6,500
WRC finds worker ‘discriminatorily dismissed’ due to her disability
Latest WRC case involving Dundalk FC settled
Two teams of lawyers arrived to represent club at tribunal
Schools must use students’ preferred name and pronouns, says new trans rights guide
Guide produced by civil liberties group warns businesses risk legal action if they fail to uphold rights
WRC hears Marker Hotel worker’s claim of ‘invasive’ questions about origin and sexuality
Adjudicator Penelope McGrath adjourned the matter and said she would look for a resumed hearing date in March
Romanian workers on Intel site let go days after work stoppage in ‘calamitous’ racism row
Company tells WRC that redundancies were genuine and the result of a downturn in work
Printer says ‘aggressive’ colleague should have been sacked for ‘ghetto attitude’ on shop floor
WRC told employee made a ‘false allegation that tried at the very least to undermine’ manager
Donnybrook Magdalene laundry survivor faces eviction: ‘I have nowhere to go. I am frightened’
Nuala Clarke (70) is being evicted over antisocial behaviour when she experienced psychosis three years ago
Threat of new schools strike action remains as pensions dispute goes to Labour Court
‘Considerable’ gap between desires of two sides, says Fórsa union
Industrial relations agencies annoyed at being kept in dark on collective bargaining plan
Labour Court and Workplace Relations Commission only found out on the day of strategy’s unveiling
HR worker admits using ‘AI assistance’ to write legal papers for her employment tribunal
Claimant’s legal submissions may contain AI ‘hallucinations’, Workplace Relations Commission told
Driving testers vote in favour of industrial action over insurance concerns
Any action could have detrimental effect on waiting times for driving tests
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