Updates

 Awareness of the importance of providing support for women experiencing symptoms of menopause has been amplified in Europe over the last few years. There is a push to put women’s health to the forefront of the public discourse in recognition of the fact this has certainly not been the case to date. In Ireland, menopause […]

Jane Crowe v Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Limited & Debenhams Retail (Ireland) Limited in Liquidation. The recent decision of the Labour Court provides useful insights into and clarifications regarding the collective redundancy obligations for employers that arise under the Protection of Employment Act, 1977 (“the 1977 Act”), which organisations should be alert to when proposing to […]

The Unfair Dismissals Acts and Employment Equality Acts provide for three different remedies but, for the most part, everybody concentrates on only one: compensation. There are good reasons for that, as it is the most common and the least problematic remedy that can be awarded under that legislation. From a financial perspective, it returns the […]

The WRC have published the long-awaited Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Right to Request Flexible Working and the Right to Request Remote Working (the “Code”). The Code was required in order to implement the right to request flexible and remote working arrangements as set out in the Work Life Balance and […]

The Parental Leave Act 1998 was amended with effect from 27 November 2023 to provide five days (over a period of 12 consecutive months) to employees for domestic violence leave. Employers are not responsible for domestic violence but are in a position to act as allies and recognise the impact on an employee’s capacity to […]

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 was signed into law on 4 April 2023. The overall aim of the Act is to introduce new rights for employees in order to support a better balance of work life, family life and caring responsibilities. Several of its key provisions including the right to request […]

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill (the “Work Life Bill”) aims to increase participation of women in the labour market, as well as the up-take in family related leave. Work Life Balance v Right to Request Remote Working: The Work Life Bill is similar to the Right to Request Remote Working Bill (the […]

The UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd, the first employee competition case to reach the UK’s Supreme Court in over a century. While this looks like a decision which is favourable to employers with loosely drawn restrictive covenants, employers need to continue to be careful […]

On 29 March 2017, CC Solicitors were successful before the Court of Appeal in (Conor Brennan v Irish Pride Bakeries (In Receivership) [2015 No. 547], a case which reiterates that a receivership does not affect a subsisting contract of employment and that receivers are not endowed with different and/or additional powers to an employer in […]