The long awaited Irish gender pay gap regulations were eventually published at the end of May. In this latest podcast Bryan Dunne, Head of Employment at Matheson provides you with a recap on the legislation and goes through some of the most frequent clients' questions and answers on the new regulations and what the key issues are already.

Episode 52: The Irish Gender Pay Gap Regulations – Most Frequent Client Questions and Answers

In this episode of the Matheson Employment Law Podcast Series, Bryan Dunne, Head of Employment, takes a detailed look at the recently published Workplace Relations Commission Code of Practice on the Right to Request Remote and Flexible Working, what exactly it provides for and what this means for employers.  Bryan also reviews a recent decision from the WRC which now sets the record for the highest unfair dismissal award granted by the WRC since it was first established in 2015 at €440,000.

Episode 60: Remote Working Code of Practice and a Record WRC Award

In this episode of the employment law podcast series, Bryan looks at a recent decision of the  Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) which held that it was excessive to dismiss an employee for accessing her manager’s email and printing off a number of emails without permission, and considers the issues involved in reaching this conclusion.  

Episode 7 - Employment Law Podcast

Bryan Dunne discusses a recent decision of the Irish High Court which illustrates the risks to an employer when a preliminary investigation goes too far. The key issue for employers, as highlighted in this case, is the risk of triggering a much higher standard of fair procedures and due process in a preliminary investigation. This can occur where the investigator seeks to reach conclusions of fact at the preliminary investigation stage, rather than simply deciding whether there is a sufficient basis on the facts as alleged or evidence gathered to warrant the matter being put to a disciplinary hearing. The practical difficulty that arises where this occurs is that the employer may not have allowed the degree of fair procedures that the type of conclusion ultimately reached requires, and at that point it is too late to adapt to this. 

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Episode 17 - Employment Law Podcast

In this special episode, we take a detailed look at the HR aspects of GDPR and what employers should already be doing to prepare for the new GDPR regime.

Podcast 33 - Employment Law Podcast

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Episode 60: Remote Working Code of Practice and a Record WRC Award

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