Employment Law in Ireland: The Essentials for Employers, Employees, and HR Managers

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Are you an employer or HR manager concerned about employment-related claims by employees? Are you an employee whose employment rights are being infringed or ignored? Employment Law in Ireland: A Guide for Employers, Employees, and HR Managers can help because it can save you time and money. If you are an employer, it can save you the expense of defending and, perhaps, losing a costly claim by an employee. This edition has been updated to include the introduction of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in October 2015, The Protected Disclosures Act in 2014, the use of social media in the workplace, employment references, GDPR, the right to legal representation in the workplace during disciplinary proceedings, the Supreme Court decision in 2017 which clarifies bullying in the workplace, the Mediation Act 2017, and more. For employers and employees If you are an employee, it can help you obtain your employment rights and eliminate the stress of not knowing where you stand because it explains what your obligations are as an employer and what your rights are as an employee.  Wide range of topics covered Topics such as unfair dismissal, redundancy, the employment contract, health and safety, policies and procedures should be in place in the workplace, equality and discrimination, holiday entitlements, part-time and fixed-term workers' rights, rest periods and breaks, data protection, TUPE (transfer of undertakings) regulations, temporary agency workers, young persons in work, NERA and how they operate, intoxicants in the workplace, maternity leave, other leave entitlements, payment of wages, and more are explained in easy-to-understand language. Employers are understandably worried about costly claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, discrimination, unfair selection for redundancy. This book helps avoid such claims by explaining the correct steps to take to prevent claims and what the em