An employee’s successive fixed term project roles were found to be objectively justified, with no entitlement to a contract of indefinite duration or evidence of penalisation, and all claims were dismissed.

The Complainant stated that she had been employed since 2005 in a permanent Grade 7 role before undertaking successive fixed-term appointments at Assistant Principal Officer level from 2019 to 2025. She stated that her first APO role, linked to the Respondent's merger project, had been repeatedly renewed over a number of years, which she contended gave rise to an entitlement to a contract of indefinite duration under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003.  She argued that the temporary designation applied by the Respondent did