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January blues

31 January 2025

January can often seem like the longest month of the year, with payday seemingly never around the corner and the festive period a distant memory. It is also an incredibly busy time for employment lawyers.  Many employees dwell on work related issues over the Christmas period and make decisions about their future employment on the return […]

Redundancy Situation

25 November 2024

If there is a reduction in the number of roles leading to a redundancy situation, does that mean that there is a vacancy which a employee on maternity leave should be given priority? In Hunter v Carnival Plc the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) looked at the protection provided by regulation 10 of the Maternity and Parental Leave […]

Is the alternative role suitable alternative employment? 

20 November 2024

In a redundancy situation an affected employee may be offered suitable alternative employment by their employer. Then the question will become whether the employee will accept that offer or will leave the employment because of redundancy, which will usually depend on the alternative role’s suitability.   Section 138(2) – (3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 sets […]

Redundancy or another reason?

5 July 2024

A US software company has been ordered to pay a former senior sales director the equivalent of £142,000 for unfair dismissal.  Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission found the complainant, Kevin Foley, had been dismissed “under the guise of a redundancy”.  Redundancy is a term that is sometimes used colloquially to explain that a person has left […]