
Translating employment documents
Employers under Irish law are not obliged to translate employment documents into other languages. In the past, employers usually produced employment documents in our second language, English, with mainly Government agencies and Gaeltacht employers offering the choice of our first language, Irish.
A lot has changed since then.
Performance Improvement Plan
When it comes to trying to achieve an improvement in a worker’s output, the Performance Improvement Plan should only be used where all other methods have failed. A skilled manager will strive to find out what the root cause of the employee’s failure to reach the target is. Maybe it is a training problem, or a workflow problem, or a leadership problem. Are the targets realistic ?
What should you ask when you are being fired?Being told that you are being dismissed or laid off from work can cause so much stress that it becomes difficult think clearly. It is important to have a plan in advance, so that you regain some sense of control.
We examine the important questions to ask when you are being dismissed from work in Ireland.
The GDPR is coming.The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become law throughout the EU on the 25th May 2018. It represents a major overhaul of data protection regulations in Europe. It will replace all current data protection regulations. In Ireland our current data protection legislation is embodied in the Data Protection Act 1988 as amended by the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003.