EMPLOYER RESOURCES NEWSLETTER - may 2017

Welcome to the latest issue of the Employer Resources Newsletter, where you will find in-depth and expertly researched and written articles (courtesy of Adare Human Resource Management) covering key areas of employment law and best practice. 

If there are any specific topics you would like covered in this publication, please forward your suggestions to Thomas McDonagh of Adare Human Resources Management: tmcdonagh@adarehrm.ie.

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Newsletter Content:
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• Employment Case Law – each month we review a number of interesting employment law cases and consider their implications for organisations. This month we look at CCTV footage in the workplace and the Data Protection Acts.  Read more >>>
  
  
• Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Decisions – each month we look at and review the decisions from the WRC. This provides a valuable insight into the types of discrimination cases before the WRC and the decisions that are issued.  Read more >>> 
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• What to Keep an Eye Out For – what is new, changing, potentially changing or what you may have missed.  Read more >>>​​

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Did you Know?

Parental Leave Act Amendment 

​A Bill has been issued to amend the Parental Leave Act 1998 to extend unpaid Parental Leave from 18 weeks to 26 weeks.

The Parental leave Acts, 1998-2013 set out to provide unpaid leave to natural and adoptive parents of children of a certain age and also to persons acting in loco parentis to same. 

Eligibility for parental leave depends on 3 factors. These are:

• The Employee’s status as a parent,
• The age of the relevant child in respect of whom leave is being taken, and,
• The Employee meeting minimum service requirements.

Leave may be availed of in respect of a relevant child:

• Aged under 8 years of age, or
• Within two years of an adoption order where the child is adopted between the ages of 6 and 8 years, or
• Aged under 16 years in the case of a child with a disability/ long term illness, or earlier where the child ceases to have a disability/ long term illness. 
  
  

In order to qualify for leave the Employee must have completed 12 months service with the Organisation.  However, where the child is about to go over the ages specified in this section, and the Employee has completed more than 3 months service but less than 12, he/she will be entitled to avail of 1 working week of leave per completed month of service.