Budget 2023 - Employment Related Changes

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 28/09/2022 It is Budget 2023 time and Ken Killoran (Tax Partner in Mazars) has set out below the key measures from an employment tax perspective: Key employment tax-related change No change to personal tax rates for 2023 but the Standard Rate Cut-Off Points (SRCOPs) for 2023 have been increased. (See page 14...

Negative Feedback? How to Strip Out the Helpful from the Unhelpful

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 13/09/2022 Some people take honesty way too far! They pride themselves on saying it how it is and BOOM, you're knocked for six. They have a convenient excuse for their bluntness of course: "I'm just being honest - I call a spade a spade". On the one hand, negative feedback is a key driver of effective perfor...

Wide-ranging Changes to Irish Whistleblowing Legislation

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 12/09/2022 Change have recently been made to Irish whistleblowing legislation to fully implement the EU Whistleblowing Directive. The changes broaden the scope of and enhance whistleblowers' protection. In 2014, the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (the 2014 Act) was introduced to protect workers from dismissa...

Irish Employment Law In Brief: August 2022

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 05/09/2022 This month’s 'In Brief' brings together a range of resources and articles that we’ve found interesting during the month of August. We’ve highlighted the key themes, to help you keep up to date with developments. Just like the temperature, prices soared and everyone felt the squeeze of the cost of ...

Lunch and Learn with MCS Group – Applications vs CVs: Comparing Apples to Oranges?

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 31/08/2022 Grab your lunch and join Julie Holmes, Knowledge Partner at Legal Island and Ryan Calvert, Manager of HR Recruitment for UK and Ireland, as they continue to discuss the key trends emerging in HR recruitment. Using applications or CVs is like comparing apples to oranges for the purposes of recruitme...

6 Tips and Takeaways on compliance with the Bullying Code of Practice for Employers

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 17/08/2022 In a recent Legal Island webinar, Rolanda Markey from our Knowledge Team and HR & Employment Law expert, Caroline Reidy, Managing Director of the HR Suite, discussed the current topical challenges in complying with the Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Prevention and Resolutio...

Irish Employment Law In Brief: Case Law Update

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 01/08/2022 This month’s 'In Brief ' is a common law catch up. It can be hard to keep up to date with case law developments – it’s all too easy to miss an important decision that has major implications for employers and employees. For this very reason we decided to compile a list of some of the most interesti...

Gender Pay Gap Reporting – Updated Guidance Clarifies Some Tricky Issues

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 25/07/2022 The gender pay gap reporting regulations in Ireland were published last month. Straight away, a number of issues with interpretation were apparent. The government has now clarified some (but not all) of these. In this article, we explain the issues addressed by the updated frequently asked questio...

Irish Employment Law: What We Learned Last Quarter (Q2 2022)

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 04/07/2022 Legal Island's Learning and Development team have collated all of the updates we sent our 1,600+ Irish Employment Law Hub subscribers in Q2 2022.  Every three months, we update you with some of the key developments in employment law and practice affecting the Irish workplace in the quarter. In the...

Lunch and Learn with MCS Group - Emerging Trends in HR Roles

Posted in: Supplementary Articles ROI on 14/06/2022 Grab your lunch and join Rolanda Markey, Learning and Development Team at Legal Island and Ryan Calvert, Manager of HR Recruitment for UK and Ireland, as they discuss the key trends emerging in HR recruitment.Ryan serves up some digestible golden nuggets of information and guidance that will leave ...