The High Court will rule on Monday on University College Cork’s application for an injunction preventing picketing at some entrances to the main campus next week by employees of a research institute.

Students at University College Cork want assurances that library and other services will not be hit by a strike during exams next week.

A Limerick primary school board has lodged a High Court appeal against a circuit court ruling that a former principal was contructively dismissed.

RSA Insurance said it will fight a constructive dismissal case filed by the former head of its Irish unit, who stepped down more than a year ago amid an accounting scandal.

A decision by the Employment Appeals Tribunal, that a primary school principal who took early retirement was constructively dismissed, has been upheld at Limerick Circuit Court and the amount of compensation has more than doubled. 

Dublin Airport Authority is to ask the High Court next Friday to restrain threatened industrial action by SIPTU that would effectively close down Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports.

Three former senior executives with Goodbody Stockbrokers will not disclose confidential information obtained by them in their old jobs to their new employer, investment managers Tilman Brewin Dolphin Ltd, the High Court has been told.

Mark Keogan, brother of TV and radio star Hector Ó hEochagáin, was today awarded €85,000 compensation for unfair dismissal in September 2009 as manager of The George Pub and Nightclub in Georges Street, Dublin.

HUNDREDS of Bank of Ireland employees were involved in passing around emails which senior bank managers deemed offensive and inappropriate, it was claimed yesterday.

A SOFT drink processing and packaging firm claims it should be excluded from a statutory wage agreement because a pure fruit juice it produces is not fizzy, the High Court has heard.

DAIRYGOLD yesterday secured a High Court order that a former worker’s claim for improved redundancy terms, along with an allegation there was a conspiracy between the company and the trade union involved, was frivolous and vexatious.

MANAGEMENT at St Michael’s House - who deny a senior clinical psychologist’s claim he was bullied out of his job - had been asked for a training course on bullying, the Employment Appeals Tribunal heard yesterday.

SACKED pub manager John Foley was “devastated” after losing his job running ex-F1 racer Eddie Irvine’s trendy Cocoon bar.

RETIRED motor racing star Eddie Irvine has been branded "a coward" by his former business partner in a further escalation of a bitter legal row between the one-time best friends.

A TEMPORARY injunction preventing Irish Ferries terminating any jobs at the company was lifted by consent in the High Court yesterday.

A PSYCHOLOGIST claims he became the victim of a campaign of bullying and intimidation by his employers after he raised concerns about the transfer of a patient to the controversial Leas Cross nursing home in Dublin.

A psychologist said today he was targeted maliciously after he raised concerns about the transfer of a patient who later died at the Leas Cross Nursing Home in Dublin.

A WOMAN who was suspended, but later offered her job back, during investigations into missing funds at the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is suing the charity for constructive dismissal.

Eddie Irvine’s former business partner was the victim of a nakedly cynical strategy to oust him from their pub company, it was claimed today.

A Nigerian man was racially discriminated against by IBM Ireland, it was claimed at a tribunal today.

The National Implementation Body (NIB) is to investigate how to achieve better industrial relations in the building trade, particularly among brick and block-laying workers.

PUBLICANS Hugh O’Regan and Paraic Dunning are to go ahead with development works on their €16m extension to the Morrison Hotel on Ormond Quay, Dublin, following a decision of the High Court yesterday.

TWO women shouted abuse at a man outside a court yesterday before he was charged with an arson attack on a family home.