Ireland

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Ireland - Positive discrimination (PDF 232 kB)

Positive Discrimination

Date: 21 December 2018. Topics

Ireland - Gender Pay Gap (PDF 137 kB)

Equal pay

Date: 24 July 2018. Topics

Ireland - Ireland ratifies UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PDF 135 kB)

Rights of people with disabilities

Date: 18 April 2018. Topics

Ireland - Diversity and Company Boards (PDF 132 kB)

Statutory report on diversity

Date: 14 November 2017. Topics

Ireland - Publication of decisions with the names of the parties (PDF 135 kB)

Publication of decisions with names of the parties

Date: 23 August 2017. Topics

Ireland - Domestic Violence Bill 2017 (137 kB)

Ratification of the Istanbul Convention

Date: 26 July 2017. Topics

Ireland - Access to housing (PDF 23 kB)

A Potential Tenant v A Letting Agent
Adjudication Officer Decision ADJ-00004060

Date: 28 June 2017. Topics

Ireland - State recognises Traveller ethnicity (PDF 131 kB)

Ireland’s indigenous Travelling community has been recognised by the government as an ethnic minority

Date: 15 March 2017. Topics

Ireland - Wessel v Aer Lingus Ltd. (PDF 140 kB)

Pregnancy, remuneration and employer pension contributions

Date: 18 January 2017. Topics

Ireland - Wach v Travelodge Management Company Limited (PDF 139 kB)

Jurisdiction – employer incorrectly identified

Date: 18 January 2017. Topics

Ireland - A Sales Representative v A Books Wholesaler (PDF 149 kB)

Dismissal on the grounds of incapacity held to be discriminatory for lack of reasonable accommodation

Date: 22 November 2016. Topics

Ireland - Paternity Leave (PDF 234 kB)

Paternity leave

Date: 21 September 2016. Topics

Ireland - Parental leave and paternity leave (PDF 137 kB)

Parental leave and paternity leave

Date: 22 June 2016. Topics

Ireland - Mohan v Ireland and The Attorney General [2016] IEHC 35 (PDF 78 kB)

Gender quotas and parliamentary candidates

Date: 21 March 2016. Topics

Ireland - Workplace Relations Act 2015 (PDF 64 kB)

Access to justice

Date: 21 March 2016. Topics

Ireland - Important High Court judgment on extent of an employer’s obligation to provide reasonable accommodation in a disability case (99 kB)

Employer must show that it has considered the possible redistribution of the employee’s tasks in order to provide reasonable accommodation

Date: 29 February 2016. Topics

Ireland - The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (PDF 76 kB)

Violence against women

Date: 29 February 2016. Topics

Ireland Carroll v Gruaig Barbers DEC-S2015-005, Carroll v Short Cuts DEC-S2015-007 (PDF 158 kB)

Gender discrimination in access to access to services

Date: 4 August 2015. Topics

Ireland - Sheehy-Skeffington v. National University of Ireland Galway (PDF 150 kB)

Gender discrimination in access to promotion

Date: 4 August 2015. Topics

Ireland - Formal establishment of Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission 1 November 2014 (PDF 40 kB)

Coming into force of legislation merging Irish equality and human rights bodies

Date: 20 January 2015. Topics

Ireland - Case on access to financial services for transgender woman DEC-S2013-015 (PDF 48 kB)

Whether bank discriminated against transgender woman by requiring her to open a new bank account in her new legal name

Date: 6 March 2014. Topics

Ireland - Lack of reasonable accommodation for disability in dismissal case (PDF 56 kB)

Tribunal orders re-instatement and awards redress in a case involving disability, lack of reasonable accommodation, and discriminatory dismissal.

Date: 19 July 2013. Topics

Ireland - Age discrimination, objective justification, volunteers/employees (PDF 67 kB)

Age ground, volunteer workers, employee status, discriminatory dismissal

Date: 19 July 2013. Topics

Ireland - Labour Court decision in HOSPIRA - AND - ROPER (PDF 56 kB)

Landmark decision of the Labour Court overturns a decision of the Equality Tribunal to the effect that caps on redundancy payments constituted indirect discrimination on grounds of age (and would only be lawful if objectively justifiable).

Date: 19 July 2013. Topics