Previous role at Matheson Solicitors
In her day to day practice, Deirdre advises on all aspects of employment, equality and industrial relations law. Appearing regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Courts and the Data Protection Commission on behalf of clients, Deirdre is an experienced, robust and practical advocate. In recent years, Deirdre developed a niche practice in the areas of employment and data protection with particular experience in dealing with contentious data subject access requests, employment related privacy data breaches, regulatory investigations by the Data Protection Commission and enforcement actions involving criminal sanctions in the data protection space.
As the negative impact on businesses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, Deirdre Crowley, Partner, Matheson and Susan Doris-Obando, Senior Associate, Matheson look at alternatives to redundancies.
Lay-off and short-time working ⚓︎
An employee may be placed on a period of lay-off where, subject to the conditions set out in the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2014 (“RPA”), his or her employer is unable to provide the work for which the employee is paid, and it is reasonable in the circumstances that the employer believes that the cessation of employment will not be permanent and the employer gives notice to the employee prior to the cessation. There is no statutory minimum timeframe in relation to such notice,
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