Review of Recent Employment Developments in Ireland 19/1/2018

Highlights this week: A new Code of Practice on longer working and objective justification of mandatory retirement has been issued and Jennifer Cashman of Ronan Daly Jermyn provides readers with a summary of key points; the Codes of Practice on Bullying in the Workplace are to be reviewed by the WRC and HSA; the Chief Whip has announced 49 priority Bills in the spring/summer legislative programme  - we set out the expected employment-related changes; we have the latest on gender pay gap reporting in Ireland and the UK (and, by the way, Iceland this month became the first nation in the world to legally ensure women are paid equally to men); the Healthy Ireland 2018 Campaign has been