by Purdy and Co | Jan 9, 2015 | News
The process for resolving employment disputes will be drastically changed later this year as the Workplace Relations Act comes into force. The Act will hopefully bring an end to the lengthy delays between initiating a claim and getting it heard, which have become a...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 6, 2015 | News
New legislation has been introduced to offer legal protection to those who wish to report concerns over wrongdoing in the public and private sector. The Protected Disclosures Act will provide protection to all employees, including contractors, trainees and agency...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 22, 2014 | News
The proposal which was agreed by the Coalition parties obliges companies to negotiate with workers, but not necessarily with trade unions. This is an interesting compromise in the long battle that has been waged on the sticky issue of compulsory trade union...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 21, 2014 | News
As such prenuptial agreements have been on the increase where couples wish to be as honest as possible with each other before they marry. A prenuptial agreement can help couples begin their marriage with an honest disclosure of their respective financial positions...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 17, 2014 | News
The first of the above mentioned cases was an Irish case, Z v A Government Department and the Board of Management of a Community School (C-363/12). In said case Ms Z applied for adoptive leave but was refused same since there is no express provision in Irish...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 16, 2014 | News
The Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2011, duly prohibits discrimination in the work place on the grounds of age, however, section 34 (4) of the said Acts, expressly provides that “it shall not constitute discrimination on the age ground to fix different ages for the...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 15, 2014 | News
It must be noted that there is no specific tort of bullying and/or harassment in this country and thus claims have to made within existing causes of action, most of which were never designed to deal with this difficult area. One such cause of action is a harassment...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 14, 2014 | News
In essence and put simply it is information which parties to a contract or arrangement require not to be made public or disclosed to third parties. It is clear that, as stated, the aforementioned definition is very broad and in reality varies from business to...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 9, 2013 | News
The case of Smith v Trafford Housing Trust is one such case…. Mr. Smith was a practising Christian and occasional lay preacher and a housing official with Trafford Housing Trust. The claimant read a newspaper article one weekend about gay marriage in church and...
by Purdy and Co | Jan 9, 2013 | News
Section 2 (2) states:- “A person shall not employ a non-national in the State except in accordance with an employment permit”. Section 3 then goes on to state that a person “who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to:-...
