Ireland: Employment Litigation/ Tribunals

Ireland's Labour Court has released its 2025 Annual Report, revealing an 11% decrease in case referrals alongside increasingly complex workplace disputes spanning employment rights appeals, industrial relations matters, and collective bargaining agreements. The report highlights significant legal developments including High Court appeals on European Works Councils and collective redundancies, while demonstrating the Court's expanding role in setting employment standards through Employment Regulation Orders

Recent Workplace Relations Commission decisions reveal critical distinctions in how compensation caps apply under Ireland's Employment Equality Acts, particularly when employees resign before filing discrimination claims. The €13,000 statutory ceiling may not always hold, as one landmark case suggests EU law could require higher awards in certain circumstances.

When businesses think about defamation, the instinct is often to think of newspaper headlines or social media controversies. In practice, some of the most damaging and costly claims can arise much closer to home – inside the workplace itself.

As part of William Fry's Employment Miniseries, in this episode Maeve Griffin and Katie Keegan of our Employment & Benefits Group discuss misconduct dismissals.

Each year, the Workplace Relations Commission (‘WRC), the body responsible for adjudicating on employment law disputes in Ireland, publishes a report on the previous year's activities. This report always makes...

The WRC recently determined that a former CEO, chairperson and founder of a company who had been unfairly dismissed was entitled to compensation of €440,000

The Supreme Court has found, by a narrow majority, that the Workplace Relations Act 2015 (the Act) as implemented by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) is not unconstitutional.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued a decision regarding the constitutionality of the Workplace Relations Commission (Zalewski -v- Adjudication Officer and WRC...

A new Code of Practice on the Right to Disconnect (the "Code") has been published this week. The Code directs employers in Ireland to assess their working arrangements and patterns and to agree on and publish a Right to Disconnect Policy.