We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo
  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 13

European Court of Justice rules in favour of Waterford Crystal workers

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • April 25 2013

The European Court of Justice (the "ECJ") this morning delivered its ruling in the case of Hogan and Others v Minister for Social and Family Affairs

Can collective agreements justify a difference in pay between men and women?

  • Clarkslegal LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • March 6 2013

In the Irish case of Kenny v Minister for Justice, female civil servants carrying out clerical duties for the national police claimed that they were

EU political update 14 - 18 January 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • January 14 2013

On 9 January, Ireland officially launched its detailed programme and priorities of the Six-month long Irish Presidency. The programme sets out

Equality law - compulsory retirement age

  • McCann FitzGerald
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • December 7 2012

In Ireland, there is no statutory mandatory retirement age, except in respect of certain public sector occupations

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Retirement age: latest update from Europe

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • November 11 2011

The Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2008 (the ‘EEAs’) prohibit discrimination in employment on nine separate grounds, one of which is age

CJEU referral when does an employer's obligation to consult in a collective redundancy arise?

  • A&L Goodbody
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 28 2011

The Court of Appeal in the United Kingdom recently referred the vexed question of the timing of the obligation to consult in a collective redundancy to the CJEU

Collective redundancies - when does the obligation to consult arise? Award of almost 3 million in Fujitsu case

  • LK Shields
  • -
  • European Union, Finland, Ireland
  • -
  • April 7 2010

The decision of the Finnish Supreme Court in the Fujitsu case delivered on 9 March 2010, pursuant to which Fujitsu was ordered to pay almost 3 million to dismissed employees, has relevance for Irish employers, particularly those within an international group

Age discrimination and setting age limits

  • A&L Goodbody
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, Ireland
  • -
  • February 16 2010

The topic of age discrimination and justification of discrimination on the grounds of age has come into the spotlight again with the release of two recent European Court of Justice decisions

Sick of holidays: recent rulings by the European Court of Justice and House of Lords on the Working Time Directive have implications for Ireland

  • Matheson
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 13 2010

In Ireland, the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 links an employee’s entitlement to paid annual leave with hours worked