Video: What Is an Employment Contract Under Irish Law? (Part 1)
This video explains what an employment contract is and the statements of terms the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 requires employers to...
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This video sets out the further terms employers may include beyond the statutory minimum, from exclusive service and confidentiality to post-termin...
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This video covers key workplace policies, their interaction with employment contracts, and best practice for implementation and communication.
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Ten years on, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 has transformed Ireland's employment dispute resolution and rights enforcement landscape.
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AI is transforming employment law through stricter regulation, transparency rules and mandatory oversight in workplace decision-making, but it does...
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WRC finds that, in certain circumstances, employers can substitute more favourable sick pay terms for the statutory scheme.
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The entitlement to fully paid domestic violence leave takes effect from 27 November.
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Artificial Intelligence is set to have an ever-larger impact on how we work. We consider some of the ways employers can prepare for inevitable AI r...
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Important new Regulations provide greater clarity to employees on their terms and conditions of employment and create new obligations for employers.
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The Government has approved the publication of the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, which will introduce five days of paid...
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Here is a selection of our recent publications on subjects that may affect you or your business.
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Amendments to residential tenancies legislation extend termination notice periods for landlords and increase formalities.
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This article discusses the recent signing into law of the Sick Leave Act 2022 and the forthcoming implications for employers and employees upon com...
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This is an update confirming that Parent's Leave for eligible working parents has increased from 5 to 7 weeks.
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On 5 April 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland made further changes to its list of Pre-Approval Controlled Functions (PCFs) under its Fitness and Pro...
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The Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 has now been published. We discuss some of the key features of the proposed legislation designed to...
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WRC inspectors to target a number of sectors of the economy in 2019 including equine, fisheries, nail bars, car washes and professional sectors.
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The WRC recently revisited the reoccurring question of whether an employee is entitled to bring legal representation to a disciplinary meeting
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The General Scheme of the Bill to transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive into Irish law has been published. Key changes include requiring privat...
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This article examines the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn a High Court ruling that communications concerning an employee's own personal h...
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William Fry recently participated in two webinars hosted by Franklin Paris which discussed the EU Whistleblowing Directive.
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The government's COVID-19 "Green List" may impact employees' rights to annual leave and employers' rights to refuse. Guidance is that those returni...
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In this roundup video Jane Barrett and Richard Smith, associates in our Employment & Benefits Group, give a quick guide to employment and pensions ...
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Jeff Greene, a Partner in our Employment and Benefits Group, gives a quick video guide to the most notable employment law developments and cases in...
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The William Fry Employment & Benefits team is releasing a 3 part series of short videos in December 2020 and January 2021. In part 1 below, Jeff Gr...
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Video: What is the Gender Pay Gap (GPG), why does it exist, when will mandatory GPG reporting come into law in Ireland, who will be affected and wh...
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Video: Karen Hennessy and Richard Smith from William Fry and Vincent Chung from Dixcart Legal discuss how nationals from the European Economic Area...
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The Irish Government has approved the drafting of the General Scheme of the Sick Leave Bill 2021 which will introduce a statutory sick pay scheme w...
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Construction and electrical workers to receive pay increases after Minister backs Labour Court recommendations
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The WRC has announced that Dublin based physical face-to-face adjudication, conciliations and mediation meetings scheduled for the week commencing ...
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Our Corporate Immigration team take a look into new travel restrictions and what employers need to consider if they require people to travel to Ire...
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Following the Caster Semenya case, how might non-employee athletes bring discrimination claims in Ireland?
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Catherine O'Flynn, Head of our Employment & Benefits department, moderated a panel for the HR Directors Series looking at The Power of Inclusive Le...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on all our lives. Employers and employees across all sectors found themselves adapting overni...
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The UK Court of Appeal, in allowing IBM to proceed with its pensions restructuring, held that a test of rationality applies in pension cases when c...
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High Court rules that applicants for citizenship must have one year's uninterrupted residence immediately prior to their application.
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Caster Semenya is temporarily free to compete in all athletic events, without lowering her testosterone levels, following the outcome of an interim...
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Please click on the title above to view our Legal News - March 2019
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The Central Bank of Ireland proposes strong net migration as the most important source of employment growth if the economy continues to grow at rec...
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Welcome to the June 2019 edition of Legal News. We at William Fry aim to keep you up to date on legal developments that may affect you or your busi...
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School Bus Driver teaches Employer a lesson in unfair dismissal
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Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2018 comes into force today. The Act provides greater protection and security to employees including rest...
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This article provides tips for sporting body employers to mitigate legal and reputational risk associated with discrimination.
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The Court of Appeal has delivered its much-anticipated judgment in the case of Kearney v Byrne Wallace reaffirming the well-established position th...
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Welcome to day 4 of our 12 days of Christmas series. Today we look back on our Artificial Intelligence in the workplace article series ("A.I. Serie...
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The UK deadline for gender pay gap reporting passed on 4 April 2018. We look at what lessons Irish companies can take from the UK experience in pre...
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AI, used correctly, can help solve gender inequality in the Irish workplace