In our most recent “Client Update” we provided an update and review of the IR and ER landscape. Over the next few weeks we’ll share our thoughts on some of the key issues. Next up we look at “Parent Leave entitlements extended” Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act…. Under the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019, from 01.11.19, new mothers and fathers are each entitled to two weeks of ‘paid parent leave’ within the first year of their child being born at a rate of €245 per week. This is the same rate paid for existing maternity and paternity leave. The measure is applicable for children born or adopted from 01.11.19. Paid parent’s leave must be taken after birth or placement for adoption and be tak
The following article written by Brian Sheehan appeared in Industrial Relations News on 28.11.19 (See IRN 43) and is repeated here. The role that the Labour Court can play in bringing finality to disputes “should be an increasingly important part of its remit”, an employment relations conference will be told this week. This is one of several changes put forward by Stratis Consulting, which says that decisions on industrial relations matters by the Labour Court, “should be guided by the strategic goal of making Ireland the preferred location for employers to invest and to grow their businesses and for employees to live and work”. Stratis says the role that the Labour Court can play in bringin
The following article written by Brian Sheehan appeared in Industrial Relations News on 28.11.19 on EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS REFORM (See IRN 43) and is repeated here. Stratis Consulting, the employment relations specialists, have put together a ‘White Paper’ on our employment relations system, entitled ‘The Journey Towards a ‘World Class’ Workplace Relations System – Where Are We?’. It contains suggestions, which are meant to spark debate, on collective bargaining, new industrial relations processes, new rules on industrial disputes and the creation of new national ‘oversight body’. The core message of the Stratis Consulting paper on our employment relations system is that we need to improve it
In planning for the Stratis Employment Relations Summit - ‘2020 VISION’ on ‘Leading Employment Relations in a full Employment Economy’, on 28th November 2019, we considered it timely to consider the progress made in the journey towards a ‘World Class’ workplace relations system and to assess where are we now? With effect from 1 October 2015, the Workplace Relations Act 2015 introduced widescale reforms to the long-established employment rights and industrial relations dispute resolution procedures. This established the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) as the body of first instance and confirmed the Labour Court as having the sole appellate jurisdiction with a further appeal on a point of
