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3 Key Developments In Employment Law From 2025

2025 was another busy year in Irish employment law. In this update which was published by Legal Island on Thursday 11 December, Addleshaw Goddard look at three areas that came into sharp focus for HR professionals...

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Addleshaw Goddard

Ireland's New Action Plan To Promote Collective Bargaining: What Does It Mean For Employers?

Ireland has launched its Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining 2026-2030. This reaffirms its commitment to voluntarism, favouring encouragement, guidance and financial incentives over legal mandates.

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Lewis Silkin

Ireland Employment Law Round-Up: What's Ahead For Employers

As we approach the final quarter of 2025, several significant employment law developments are on the horizon that will impact Irish employers across sectors.

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Walkers

Employee Or Contractor? Revenue Gives Employers An Opportunity To Correct Payroll Issues – Without Penalty

On 11 September 2025, the Revenue Commissioners announced an opportunity for employers to correct payroll tax issues arising in 2024 and 2025 due to a bona-fide misclassification...

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RDJ LLP

Abandonment Of Employment: Legal Risks And Employer Responsibilities

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RDJ LLP

Employment Rights In Ireland: A Guide For Employers And Employees

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Protected Disclosures Act 2014 - Current Trends And Section 5(5) Defence Explored

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RDJ LLP

Gender Pay Gap Reporting – Top 10 FAQs

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Matheson

Irish Employment Law

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Lewis Silkin

Performance Management And Exit Conversations In Irish Employment Law

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RDJ LLP

Northern Ireland: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Proposals Dashboard

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Lewis Silkin

Recent Developments In Mandatory Retirement Ages

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McCann Fitzgerald

Guidance On The Updated Code Of Practice On Determining Employment Status In Ireland

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Lewis Silkin

Company Health Check: Are Your Statutory Sick Pay Provisions Compliant?

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Byrne Wallace

Employment Update: Q4 2025

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Arthur Cox

Cross-border Processing Complaints – What To Expect With The New GDPR Procedural Regulation

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Arthur Cox

The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Podcast)

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Arthur Cox

ESMA Publishes Amended Guidelines On Liquidity Management Tools

Ireland Finance

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Arthur Cox

The EU Pay Transparency Directive (Video) (Podcast)

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Arthur Cox

Redundancies: Practical Employer Guidance

The law relating to redundancy is an area that comes up almost on a daily basis for our RDJ Employment Team. Whether a business is re-structuring, re-sizing or reducing their workforce...

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RDJ LLP

To Be An Employee Or Not To Be An Employee?

Greater clarity is emerging in how the Irish Revenue Commissioners ("Revenue") and the Workplace Relations Commission ("WRC") will apply last year's significant Supreme Court...

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Matheson

Employment And Pensions - What's Another Year?, January 2025

Under the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, Member States with a collective bargaining coverage below 80%, as is the case in Ireland...

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Arthur Cox

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Ireland, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

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Arthur Cox

Court Awards €11m For Breach Of Fiduciary Duties

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William Fry

Updated Code Of Practice On Determining Employment Status Now Published

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Arthur Cox

Irish Work And Residence Permissions Overview

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William Fry

Ireland As A VFX Destination For The Film Industry: Related Immigration Considerations

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Fragomen

Employment - Horizon Scanner: Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, October 2024

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Arthur Cox

Two Recent Cases In Ireland Apply New Supreme Court Test For Determining Employment Status

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Lewis Silkin

Private Equity: When Is A Leaver "Transfer Notice" Deemed To Be Served By An Employee Who Is Also A Director?

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Matheson

Striking The Right Chord: McGranaghan Case Changes The Tune For Gig Workers

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RDJ LLP

New Employment Permits Legislation To Come Into Force On 2 September 2024

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Arthur Cox

The 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill: A New Era For Employment Rights In Northern Ireland

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Arthur Cox

Private Equity: When Is A Leaver "Transfer Notice" Deemed To Be Served By An Employee Who Is Also A Director?

In its recent judgment in Syspal Capital Ltd v Truman & Anor [2024] EWHC 1561 (Ch) the English High Court of Justice found that the correct interpretation of a "leaver" provision in a company's articles of association.

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Matheson

Striking The Right Chord: McGranaghan Case Changes The Tune For Gig Workers

Further to our previous Insight on the recent Supreme Court case of The Revenue Commissioners v Karshan Midlands Ltd T/A Dominos Pizza [2023] IESC 24 (Karshan)...

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RDJ LLP

New Employment Permits Legislation To Come Into Force On 2 September 2024

The Employment Permits Act 2024 which was signed into law by the President on 25 June 2024 will commence on 2 September 2024. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has published a helpful...

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Arthur Cox

The 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill: A New Era For Employment Rights In Northern Ireland

Although it may have taken longer than anticipated, the recent launch of a public consultation for the ‘Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill is poised to bring Northern Ireland one step closer to a new era of employment rights.

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Arthur Cox

How To Handle Remote Working Requests? First WRC Decision Lands

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Matheson

New Irish Revenue Tax Guidance On Determining Employment Status

In May 2024, the Irish Revenue Commissioners ("Revenue") published guidance on determining employment status for taxation purposes.

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Maples Group

Revenue Issues New Guidance On Determining Employment Status For Tax Purposes

For taxation purposes, there is a difference in treatment between employees and self-employed persons engaged as independent contractors. In October 2023...

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Arthur Cox

WRC Awards Record Compensation To Employee In Dismissal Case

The Irish Workplace Relations Commission (the "WRC"), the forum in which employment law-related claims are generally dealt with, considers an unfair dismissal claim brought by a musician...

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L&E Global

New Irish Revenue Guidance On Determining Employment Status

Following the Irish Supreme Court's unanimous decision in The Revenue Commissioners v Karshan (Midlands) Limited t/a Domino's Pizza (the "Karshan Case") in October 2023...

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Matheson

Key Considerations For Establishing A Summer Internship Programme

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Maples Group

Code Of Practice On Right To Request Flexible Working And Right To Request Remote Working: What Employers Need To Consider

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Flynn O'Driscoll

The Labour Court Overturned WRC Decision That An Agency Worker Had Continuity Of Service For The Purpose Of An Unfair Dismissal Claim

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L&E Global

Update For Employers In Ireland - Right To Request Flexible And Remote Working

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Maples Group

Welcome Labour Court Decision On Continuity Of Service When Agency Worker Transitioned To Client Employee

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Arthur Cox

Ireland Introduces New Code Of Practice On Flexible And Remote Working

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Ogier

Mind The Gap! Employees To Be Allowed Work Until State Pension Age

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William Fry

Practical Employer Guidance On Fixed-Term Contracts

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RDJ LLP

General Scheme Of The Employment (Restriction Of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024

Ireland Employment

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Arthur Cox

Picketing Injunctions: All Is Changed, Changed Utterly

Ireland Employment

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Arthur Cox

WRC Publish Code Of Practice On The Right To Request Flexible And Remote Working

Ireland Employment

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William Fry

Employment Law Update: The Right To Silence In The Workplace

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Ogier

Mandatory Retirement Ages In Ireland: The Importance Of Objective Justification

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William Fry

Case Update: An Employee's Right To Silence

Ireland Employment

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Arthur Cox

Legal Island Annual Review Q&A

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RDJ LLP

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