Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Irish Republic as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Irish Republic: Preliminary statistics of EWSS and CRSS (as at 1 April 2021)
Both the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) and the COVID Restrictions Support Scheme (CRSS) will continue until 30th June 2021 …
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Irish Republic: Cabinet approves gender pay gap legislation proposals
The strengthened Gender Pay Gap Information Bill has just been approved by Cabinet …
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Irish Republic: Further temporary extension of immigration permissions to 20 September 2021
The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee has announced that all valid immigration permissions that are due to expire between 21st April 2021 and 20th September 2021 will be automatically extended to the end date of this period …
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Irish Republic: Paid parental leave entitlements to be extended from April 2021
With effect from 1st April 2021, paid Parent’s Benefit will be increased from 2 to 5 weeks for each parent …
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Irish Republic: EAT lives on – by mistake
Back in 2015, the Workplace Relations Commission court system was introduced and the old Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) Court was consequently supposed to be disbanded from 3rd October 2017 …
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Irish Republic: Remote hearings
Please note that due to government level 5 COVID-19 restrictions, the Workplace Relations Commission has suspended all face-to-face hearings and replaced them with those held on a virtual basis …
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Irish Republic: Discrimination case highlights duties of agency work providers
The Workplace Relations Commission has backed a complaint by an agency worker for treating her less favourably because of her gender …
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Irish Republic: New workplace bullying code of practice in force
A new statutory code of practice concerning bullying at work has now come into force …
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Irish Republic: EWSS is likely to continue until the end of 2021
The Minister for Finance, Pascal Donohoe, has privately made it clear that the current Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) that replaced the former Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme (“TWSS”) in September 2020 is likely to continue until the end of 2021 …
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Irish Republic: Further extension of automatic renewal until 20th April 2021
All valid immigration permissions that are due to expire from 21st January 2021 to 20th April 2021 will be automatically extended by the Minister to the end date of this period, i …
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Irish Republic: Code of practice on the ‘‘right to disconnect’’
The Workplace Relations Commission is undertaking a public consultation on a new code of practice concerning the right to disconnect outside normal working hours …
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Irish Republic: National minimum wage will increase on 1 January 2021
The new national gross hourly minimum wage changed on 1st January 2021 to €10 …
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Irish Republic: Government agrees to extend Credit Guarantee Scheme and redundancy provisions
The restriction on redundancies under the employment wage subsidy scheme ends on 31st March 2021 – at the same time as the suspension of employees’ rights to claim redundancy after a period of temporary lay-off …
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Irish Republic: DETE to print hard copies of employment permits issued electronically since March
Employment permits granted since March 2020 that were issued electronically, but not printed due to COVID-19, will now be printed …
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Irish Republic: Government updates Protocol to protect staff in the workplace
The government has recently updated the Work Safely Protocol in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace …
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