Employee Absence Due to Work-Related Stress – How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 18/01/2022 An employee is absent from work and has submitted a medical certificate citing work related stress. This employee is currently engaged in an ongoing disciplinary process. How do we handle this? It is not uncommon for an employee to go on sickness absence once a disciplinary process has been initiat...

Introducing a Dress Code - How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 16/11/2021 We are looking at introducing guidelines around what our employees should wear in the workplace. What issues should we look out for? For example, should we have a position on such things as the wearing of religious or political dress/symbols; or equal dress codes for men and women; or in fact wheth...

Inappropriate Social Media Content – How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 19/10/2021 It has been brought to our attention that an employee has posted inappropriate content online and we are concerned about the impact this may have on our organisation. What can we address this? While there are many positive benefits to social media for employers and employees alike, certain features...

Equal Pay in the Workplace – How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 21/09/2021 A female employee has raised a concern on the grounds that she is not receiving the same remuneration as her male colleagues. As an organisation how can we ensure that we are not at risk of equal pay claims? Equal pay is a hot topic in in light of the recent and welcome announcement from the Footba...

The Covid Vaccine And The Return To Work - How Do I Handle it?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 18/08/2021 Arising from our recent webinar on the Covid-19 vaccine and return to work, we the following queries arose: 1.How can an Employer provide a safe system of work without knowing vaccination status? Does that mean workplaces will need to err on side of caution and maintain social distancing etc? In t...

Remote Working From Abroad - How Do I Handle It

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 20/07/2021 In this month’s How do I Handle Article, Alan Devaney and David Rodgers from Ronan Daly Jermyn’s Employment and Tax Teams, examine the factors that an employer should take into consideration in addressing a request to work remotely from abroad. We have a mixture of employees working on site and wor...

Requiring Employees To Work On Sundays - How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 15/06/2021 We have employees who are required to work on some Sundays in the month as part of their contractual working hours. The contract of employment sets out their overall salary amount but does not specify any portion of the salary which is attributable to Sunday working. One of our employees has querie...

Complaints from Agency Workers – How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 18/05/2021 I work within a manufacturing environment where there is a mix of majority direct hires and some agency workers. I now have a complaint between a direct hire and an agency worker to address. Obviously, the agency worker is not actually our employee, so How do I handle It? There are a range of legis...

Relocation or Redundancy – How do I handle it?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 20/04/2021 Today Antoinette Vahey, Partner with Ronan Daly Jermyn considers this question: “We are changing the location of our premises to another business unit, five kilometres away from our current location. Most employees are happy to relocate however one employee has indicated that it is giving rise to p...

Returning to the Workplace – How Do I Handle It?

Posted in: How Do I Handle It ROI on 16/03/2021 It’s one year since the first lockdown, and we are starting to properly plan for a return to the workplace. All of our employees continue to work remotely but now that we see the vaccine being rolled out, we want to understand what our obligations are to our employees as they return. What are the i...