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“The Opinion Line” – The Proper Application of Internal Workplace Procedures

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Gaffney Solicitors are delighted to sponsor the Colaiste an Spioraid Naoimh basketball team, a school that tried their level best to educate me and my friends and try to keep us all in check during our time as students there.
On 30th May 2017 the Irish Supreme Court decision on the right of asylum-seekers to work, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, expressed its hope that the Irish government will amend domestic legislation to bring it into line with European laws…
The Protected Disclosures Act, 2014 (“the Act)” is designed to protect workers in all sectors of employment. The concept of “worker” includes employees (public and private sector), contractors, trainees, agency staff, former employees and interns and members of an Garda…
A Spanish childminder who won a landmark case against an Irish host family to be treated as an employee has said she hopes au pairs will “no longer be exploited as cheap labour”. The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous,…
The Residential Tenancies Amendment Act, 2015 was signed into law On the 4th December 2015. The Act provides for a series of major reforms to the private rental sector in Ireland to provide rent certainty & safeguards for both tenants…
The European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 (the “Regulations”) applies on the transfer of an undertaking, a business or part of an undertaking or business from one employer to another as a result of a legal transfer…
The Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012 was enacted to give effect to directive 2008 The operative Section of the Act is Section 6 which provides that an agency worker for the duration of his/her assignment with a hirer…
In the Republic of Ireland an employee who satisfies the legal qualifying criteria has a right not to be dismissed unfairly. In general, protection against unfair dismissal stems from the Unfair Dismissals Acts, 1997-2007 (the Acts) and the Protection of…