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Swine flu guidance for employers

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • September 4 2009

Officially called Influenza A (H1N1), swine flu can cause serious health complications or even death in a small proportion of the population

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

Whistleblowing

  • Matheson
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • November 23 2009

Section 103 of the Health Act 2007, which amends the Health Act 2004, was only formally commenced on 1 March 2009

Molly Sengupta v HSE (UD 19092009)

  • Matheson
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • July 6 2011

The claimant was employed on a temporary specified-purpose contract to replace a Senior Medical Officer (SMO) who had taken a four year career break

An overview of current whistle-blowing legislation

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • September 12 2011

Following recent instances of employees in nursing homes making disclosures to HIQA and in light of the government’s decision to abandon plans for a whistleblower referendum, it is timely to look at the legislation in force concerning whistle-blowing, particularly as it impacts upon the healthcare sector

Impact of the temporary agency workers directive on the healthcare sector

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • Ireland, USA
  • -
  • September 12 2011

HSE Management who engage agency workers to cover a short-term need, such as an upturn in hospital admissions, sickness, absence or maternity leave, should be aware of the potentially far-reaching consequences of the Temporary Agency Workers Directive (the “Directive”

Professional regulation bias

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
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  • Ireland
  • -
  • April 27 2012

In December 2011, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed an appeal by a domiciliary midwife from a High Court decision refusing to restrain the continuation of a professional misconduct hearing on the ground of objective bias

Liability at common law of a parent company to an employee of its subsidiary

  • A&L Goodbody
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  • Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 20 2011

In a recent UK High Court case a parent company was held to owe a duty of care to an employee of a subsidiary company, where the employee had been exposed to asbestos and subsequently suffered asbestosis, in circumstances where the subsidiary company was no longer in existence

Referring employees for medical assessment

  • Mason Hayes & Curran
  • -
  • Ireland
  • -
  • January 9 2013

In a recent High Court case, Delaney v Central Bank of Ireland 2011, which involved a referral by the Central Bank of a senior employee for psychiatric

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