Gerry McMahon is an acknowledged national expert in People Management. He has over 35 years’ experience - as a workplace investigator (on bullying/harassment/ disciplinary/dismissal/grievance issues), trainer, negotiator, facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and team builder - across a wide range of employment sectors. He is the M.D. of the H.R. training and advisory company Productive Personnel Ltd.
Gerry has also had an extensive range of books and articles published and been a columnist with the Industrial Relations News, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and Irish Independent and expert commentator on H.R./Employee Relations for R.T.E. and TV3/Virgin. He has also served on numerous Legal Island and C.I.P.D. judging panels and is a Council member of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Contact: Tel. 087-2471415; E-Mail: ppl1gerry@gmail.com
The issue of ‘out of time’ or late complaints frequently surfaces in Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) proceedings. Hence, it is notable that in 2021 the High Court rejected a worker’s judicial review application against a WRC adjudication decision that had disallowed him an extension of time to bring a claim. Serving to confirm the authority of the State’s industrial relations third party machinery, in this precedent setting case, the judge held that the ‘proper forum for the resolution of this factual dispute … is the Labour Court’, which hears ‘de novo’ appeals of WRC adjudication decisions(Hakan Erdogan v Workplace Relations Commission, [2021] IEHC 348).
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