by Leisa Browne | Sep 7, 2026 | Law
The Employer Obligation Most 50+ Staff Businesses Still Are Not Meeting In July 2026, a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator ordered the Waterford Intellectual Disability Association (WIDA) to pay a senior manager €323,240 after finding that she had been...
by Leisa Browne | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Consider a Dublin facilities contractor that pays new cleaning staff the headline National Minimum Wage of €14.15 an hour, confident this satisfies its legal obligations. It does not. Contract cleaning is one of several sectors bound by a separate, legally enforceable...
by Leisa Browne | Aug 9, 2026 | News
A Dublin city centre restaurant was ordered to pay approximately sixty-two thousand euro to five former employees in November 2023, after a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer found more than thirty separate breaches of employment law, spanning...
by Leisa Browne | Jul 29, 2026 | News
On 26 May 2026, Minister for Children, Disability and Equality Norma Foley confirmed, in a written reply to the Dáil, what many employers had already suspected. Ireland would not transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive into domestic law by the 7 June deadline, and...
by Leisa Browne | Jul 28, 2026 | News
In February 2026, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) accepted that a Cork motor dealership had reasonable grounds to suspect one of its Sales Executives of serious misconduct. It still found his dismissal unfair. The case, Alex Collins v Kevin O’Leary...
