Justice Kearns delivered his recent judgement in Glynn v Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform [2014 IEHC 133] on 21st March 2014. Although the claimant was unsuccessful in her claim, the case is interesting in so far as the High Court explores the tests required to prove bullying in [...]
Justice O'Neill delivered the recent judgement in Ruffley -v- Board of Management St. Anne's School [2014 IEHC 235] on the 9th day of May 2014. This case concerned bullying and harassment and a full copy of the judgement is available here. Background The plaintiff in this case claimed damages for [...]
The case of Mara Rybak v Matthew Hannigan T/a Hannigan Facility Services Building PW 243/2012, TE 126/2012, TU 28/2012 was delivered by the Employment Appeals Tribunal in November 2013 and published in February 2014. The cases came before the Tribunal with the employee appealing the two decisions and one recommendation [...]
The recently published Employment Appeals Tribunal decisions for October again contain a number of cases in respect of constructive dismissal and the tests to be applied. In Brian Butler v Ryanair Limited UD1222/2011 the Tribunal was asked to consider whether the claimant had satisfied the test for constructive dismissal in [...]
The recent Employment Appeals Tribunal case of Beverley Morgan v Irish Horse Welfare Trust Limited UD53/2012. WT 13/2012, MN 24/2014 is a useful synopsis of the law in respect of both parallel proceedings before the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the High Court and the powers of the Tribunal in this [...]
In the recent case of Cunningham v Intel Ireland [2013] IEHC 207, Mr Justice Hedigan was asked to consider the issue of duplication of proceedings. We have referred extensively to extracts from the judgement delivered on 15th May 2013 below. Background The plaintiff in this case was employed by the [...]
In a recent judgement of Ms Justice Laffoy delivered on 22nd March 2013 in Mark Ryan v ESB International Limited [2013 IEHC 126] the plaintiff sought an interlocutory injunction restraining his dismissal on the grounds of "breach of trust and confidence" entitled to be held by the defendant in him. By way of background, the [...]
The Department of Education recently launched an action plan in January 2013 against cyber bullying in schools which has unfortunately become an epidemic especially with the ever-growing popularity of social media. Minister Ruari Quinn commissioned the report and arranged for the establishment of an Anti Bullying Working Group who were tasked with [...]
The issue of discrimination in the workplace including victimisation continues to dominate workplaces including schools and in this regard it is worth revisiting the case of A Female Teacher (Complainant) v Board of Management of a Secondary School (Respondent) DEC-E/2012/103 published by the Equality Tribunal last summer which concerned the difficult issue of [...]
Following on from our blog post yesterday, we will now look at the remaining six areas of complaint in respect of bullying and harassment alleged by the plaintiff in the recent High Court case of Browne v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Others, judgement in which was [...]
Reported in this month's Irish Health and Safety Review is the recent High Court case concerning a retired detective Garda who was awarded €85,000 after claiming that he was bullied, harassed and denied payment of expense claims. Justice Cross delivered his judgement on 4th December 2012 in the case of [...]
In a decision reported in the media today namely An Employee v A Credit Union, an employee was awarded €16,000 in respect of victimisation and €8,000 for discrimination whereby it was alleged he was discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation and that he was further victimised in this regard. [...]
In Weveron Da Silva v Kepak the Claimant was employed by the Respondent from 2002 to 2010 and was dismissed for abusive objectionable and threatening behaviour towards his manager. A subsequent investigation was undertaken by a Human Resouces supervisor on foot of an email received by him stating that the Claimant [...]
The recent case of Daniel O'Gorman v Glen Tyre Company Limited UD 2314/10 sent by the Employment Appeals Tribunal on 18th January 2013 demonstrates the high burden of proof a resigning employee must demonstrate in order to prove that they have been constructively dismissed. Interestingly in this case the Tribunal noted that [...]
We have outlined below some of the most frequently asked questions we come across during workplace investigations. Over a series of recent blog posts we have highlighted some of the recent case-law in this complex area and we now turn our attention to the more practical challenges out there. Always remember no two [...]