News & Insights

• Business Interruption Insurance – policy holders win landmark test case in the UK

  • PostedSeptember 21, 2020
  

  Business Interruption Insurance has been subject to scrutiny since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Business owners across Ireland, and indeed globally, have expressed dissatisfaction with many insurers’ responses to...

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• Facebook request Judicial Review of Data Commissioner’s decision on transfer of user data outside EU

  • PostedSeptember 21, 2020
  

  In the wake of the decision made by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the validity of the mechanisms to transfer personal data outside of the EU, the Data...

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• Unpaid parental leave increased to 26 weeks

  • PostedSeptember 10, 2020
  

  Parental leave is governed by the Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019. This legislation is designed to afford parents time away from work to look after their children or make...

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• Collective Redundancies

  • PostedSeptember 8, 2020
  

  In our series on redundancy, we’ve looked at the redundancy process and settlement agreements. Because of the economic impact of Covid-19, we are, unfortunately, seeing more and more employers implement...

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• The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Act 2020

  • PostedSeptember 4, 2020
  

  The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Act 2020 (the Act) was signed into law on the 1st August 2020 and is due to be in place until the 31 December 2020...

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• Sectoral Employment Orders – an update on the judgement

  • PostedAugust 26, 2020
  

  In early July we posted a piece on the recent High Court decision on Sectoral Employment Orders. At the time we predicted that the Government could appeal the decision. You...

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