Seasonal staff have same rights as full-time employees, advises lawyer

Employers are advised to give the same attention to detail in the contracts of temporary workers as they do for long-term staff

Joanne Hyde, partner at law firm Lewis Silkin Dublin.

Employees taken on for short-duration contracts have the same employment rights as anybody else, a leading lawyer has warned employers.

Joanne Hyde, partner at law firm Lewis Silkin Dublin, cautions employers to apply the same attention to detail in the contracts offered to temporary workers as they would to those in longer-term work arrangements.