An Update on The Right to Request Remote Working
Published on: 04/10/2022
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Síobhra Rush Partner, Lewis Silkin
Síobhra Rush Partner, Lewis Silkin
Siobhra rush

Síobhra is a Partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward department and head of the Dublin office at Lewis Silkin.

She has practised employment law for more than twenty years and has expertise in a wide range of employment law issues, both contentious and non-contentious. She also advises international clients establishing in Ireland – including on contracts of employment, handbooks policies and procedures. She has advised on internal commercial re-organisations, transfer of undertakings, employment issues and the employment provisions in commercial transactions and has represented clients in all adjudicatory bodies in Ireland including the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court, the Circuit and High Courts and the Court of Appeal.

She is consistently ranked in the Chambers Europe legal directory, where she is described by a client as "responsive, proactive and pragmatic, as well as solution-oriented."

This Autumn, the Irish government plans to progress legislation on an employee’s right to request remote working arrangements as a matter of priority. In this article, Síobhra Rush, Partner and Joanna Mackey, Managing Practice Development Lawyer, Lewis Silkin looks at how 20 recent recommendations are potentially going to shape the legislation.

Plans are in place to make remote working a permanent feature of Ireland’s workforce. Remote work has certainly moved into the mainstream of workplace issues, following the huge rise of home working brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, and there is a general perception that some employers are struggling to get their employees back to the workplace unless they mandate it, which has talent attraction/retention implications for them.

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