The Employment Rights Advice Blog
Articles, news and updates on employment law in Ireland
for employees and employers
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What have Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe Systems in common?
That's the $415 million question.
All four Silicon Valley companies have agreed to pay $415 million to settle an antitrust employment law lawsuit.
The four companies are being sued by almost 65,000 workers who accuse them of conspiring to not hire each other's staff. The lawsuit has gained much publicity and has revealed much about the inner workings of some of the big Silicon Valley companies.
Breach of trust and confidence
Can be a two way affair
When breach of trust and confidence arises, it usually leads to dismissal, either fair or constructive and therefore unfair.
When we examine the caselaw dealing with this topic in Irish employment law one thing is clear, the circumstances leading to the breach are seldom straightforward.
Your employment rights
Use them or lose them
Your rights as an employee are protected under a wide range of legislation in Ireland.
You are entitled to the following:
Latest Employee Blogs
- Performance Improvement Plan or Exit Strategy?
- Whistleblower awarded five years salary by Workplace Relations Commission
- Unlawful COVID-19 pay cut
- Unfair Redundancy Case
- How to raise a problem at work
- Trade Secrets and Whistleblowing
- Is your fixed term contract valid?
- What is it like to bring an unfair dismissal claim?
- Employer relocation
- End of P45
Latest Employer Blogs
- Changes to probationary period
- Redundancy Update
- COVID-19 Vaccination Data in the workplace
- Statutory Sick Pay Scheme
- The Right to Disconnect
- Covid-19 Can I use lay off and short time to cope with Covid-19 ?
- Covid-19 (The Coronavirus) Tips for employers
- Social Media Monitoring in the Workplace
- Using 3rd party CCTV footage
- Do I need a Data Protection Officer ?
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