WRC decisions and recommendations

17/10/2024 05:35:00

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has published decisions and recommendations from 23 to 30 September 2024..

September employment case law

Cases and issues covered include:

  • a claim for discrimination on grounds of age for the employer's failure to extend the complainant's retirement date (Joseph Cunningham v Irish Rail, ADJ-00049474);

  • consideration of whether a person on unpaid lay off could be covered by section 82(4)(a) of the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 (Rachel Smyth v Metron Stores Limited t/a Iceland (in liquidation), ADJ-00047680); and

  • an unsuccessful complaint of race discrimination, harassment and victimisation following a WRC complaint (Kuol Kuol v Currys Ireland Limited, ADJ-00044829).

Full details are available on the WRC website