Siobhán Lafferty is a Senior Associate in the employment law team in Byrne Wallace Shields LLP and has a range of experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She regularly advises both employer and employee clients on issues arising from the beginning to the end of the employment relationship, regularly representing clients before the Workplace Relations Commission and in High Court proceedings.
Collective Redundancies – What’s Changed?
The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024 (the 2024 Act) came into force on 1 July 2024. It introduces enhanced protection for employees where there are collective redundancies in an insolvency situation.
The existing Protection of Employment legislation has been amended by the 2024 Act so that it is consistent with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union – by now specifying that the obligations on an employer in relation to collective redundancies must also be complied with by a liquidator or similar appointee when implementing collective redundancies as part of an insolvency process.
Protection of Employment
While now officially known as Protection of Employment
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