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CURRENT LEGAL ARTICLES
Disability Discrimination at Work: Reasonable Accommodation and Employer Obligations in Ireland
For employers, a disability-related workplace issue can quickly become more than an HR matter. A request for reasonable accommodation may affect an employee's duties, attendance, performance or working arrangements. In...
How Should Cork Employers Handle an Employee Grievance? Legal Guidance from Dylan Green & Associates Solicitors
An employee grievance can be difficult for any business to manage. What may begin as a complaint about a manager, colleague, working conditions or workplace treatment can develop into a...
Probation Period in Ireland: Can an Employer Dismiss an Employee During Probation?
A probation period gives an employer an opportunity to assess whether a new employee is suitable for the role. During this time, a business may evaluate performance, conduct, attendance, skills...
Your Employee Has Threatened a WRC Claim: What Should Your Business Do Next?
The threat of proceedings before the Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") is not an event to be met with reflexive reassurance or dismissed as an idle grievance. Whether the underlying complaint...
Conducting a Fair Workplace Investigation in Ireland
A workplace complaint — however it is initially characterised by the parties — is rarely a purely internal HR matter. Allegations of bullying, harassment, discrimination, misconduct, conflicts of interest or...
Reasonable Accommodation Under Irish Employment Equality Law
Introduction A request for reasonable accommodation places an employer at the intersection of two legitimate, and sometimes competing, interests: the operational and financial requirements of the business, and the statutory...
Before Dismissing an Employee: A Legal Framework for Irish Employers
Introduction Dismissal is the most consequential decision an employer can take in respect of an employee, and it is the decision most likely to be tested — retrospectively, and in...
WRC vs Labour Court vs Civil Courts: Where Does Your Dispute Belong?
An employer's guide to forum selection in Irish employment disputes For an employer facing a workplace dispute, one of the first — and most consequential — questions is not "who...
Alcohol and Drug Policies: Testing, Discipline, and Employer Duty of Care
An intoxicant incident at work rarely presents itself as a single, clean question. An employer confronted with a report that a member of staff smells of alcohol, or appears to...
