A Co Kildare security company sacked a worker who allegedly told an Asian colleague “you support terrorism back home and are in contact with Al Qaeda”.

The prospect of the coronavirus leading to redundancies in under pressure companies could spark an upsurge in employment litigation, warns Kyran Fitzgerald

A cabinet subcommittee will consider income support for people who have to self-isolate because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Workers who self-isolate on a precautionary basis, even if it is in line with advice from the HSE, may not be entitled to be paid, the Workplace Relations Commission has warned.

10 people have been arrested as part of an operation targeting illegal immigration and work permits.

Craig Breen’s return to the World Rally Championship with Hyundai Motorsport has given the Waterford ace the opportunity to showcase his ability on this weekend’s Rally Sweden, where, just two years ago he secured his best ever result (second) in the WRC.

Former International Racing Driver of the Year award winner Matt Griffin, who has racked up some 300 races in a Ferrari GT, has accepted a new role outside of his continuing competitive career that will see him race at 23 events this season.

The complainant told the WRC that the comments were aimed at him on a daily fashion and there was constant sniggering and juvenile stereotypical references made in his company

The Junior Minister had been a partner in government as part of the Independent Alliance.

I am thinking of taking on a farm labourer.

School secretaries would be prepared to re-enter talks to resolve a long-standing pay issue if the Government demonstrates a willingness to relax its stance on the matter.

A lawyer has said that 'companies must catch up with the law' after the Work Place Relations Commission (WRC) found that an RTÉ TV producer was discriminated against when she was forced to retire aged 65 and won €100,000 compensation.

Airport operator, the daa Group, has been ordered to pay €1,000 in compensation for discriminating against a deaf man who missed a flight at Dublin airport during Storm Ali.

WRC Adjudication Officer Breiffni O’Neill has ordered that landlord, Martin Fleming pay Wally Nkikita the maximum compensation allowed under the Equal Status Act for harassment on the grounds of race.

Finding that the hotel discriminated against all three because they are Travellers under the Equal Status Act, Mr Dolan stated that the evidence presented by the hotel “lacks a level of credibility”.

The Road Haulage Association has strongly defended Fine Gael's by-election candidate Verona Murphy dubbing her someone who strives to avoid division and seeks to bring people together.

A Fianna Fáil councillor has expressed shock at being the subject of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission over an alleged incident with an anti-abortion campaigner at a pipe band contest in Dublin last year.

A deputy hotel General Manager (GM) suffered a miscarriage weeks after being unfairly dismissed because she was pregnant.

Fine Gael do not have a standard vetting system for candidates, the Taoiseach has confirmed.

The Labour Court has recommended a pay increase of 2.25% for 5,000 workers at Penneys.

Workers at the largest Pfizer plant in Ireland look to be on a collision course with company management after they rejected recommendations from the WRC on the proposed winding up of their Direct Benefit (DB) pension scheme.

In the case, long serving cabin crew member, Dick Fagan was stopped by Custom Officers at Dublin airport after arriving off a flight from Geneva on June 25, 2015.

SIPTU members in GoSafe are to hold a one day protest at Leinster House next week, "due to the company's refusal to accept a Labour Court recommendation that it engages with the union on their behalf".

Hopes by senior Pfizer management that Irish staff would agree to a phasing out of their Direct Benefit (DB) pension scheme have been dashed after members of Siptu in the Ringaskiddy plant voted overwhelmingly to reject the proposal.

A facilities firm has been ordered to pay €30,000 to a female catering assistant who had her bottom pinched by a chef/manager in a series of sexual harassment incidents involving the senior male employee.

A Co Meath credit union dismissed its head of lending after examining a number of loans he made, including an excessively large car loan made to a person on social welfare.

Irish Rail has confirmed that nine members of staff have failed drug and alcohol tests at work over the past two years.