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In the latest episode of Matheson's Employment Law Podcast series, Bryan Dunne discusses a recent Employment Appeals Tribunal ("EAT") ruling regarding an employee on long term absence.
In the latest episode of Matheson's Employment Law Podcast
series, Bryan Dunne discusses a recent Employment Appeals Tribunal
("EAT") ruling regarding an employee on
long term absence. The EAT's ruling gives some interesting
insight into how the Irish courts might expect employers to manage
an employee's return to work and is also a rare example of an
employer exercising a strategy of admitting the dismissal was
unfair at the outset in order to limit the case to an assessment of
loss of earnings only. The discussion considers when this might be
an effective strategy and the risks to be considered in using
it.
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