I have an employee who is requesting to work remotely on grounds of disability. How do I handle it?
Published on: 12/05/2025
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Michelle Ryan Partner, RDJ LLP
Michelle Ryan Partner, RDJ LLP
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Michelle is a Partner, practising as part of RDJ’s Employment law team. She has wide ranging experience advising on all aspects of employment law. Michelle also has built specialist expertise in Data Protection and Privacy issues and is a member of RDJ’s Cyber and Data Protection Team.

In these circumstances the employer must have regard to both the Workplace Relations Commission Code of Practice and the Employment Equality Acts, 1998 – 2025 and must also adhere to their obligations under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023.

A recent decision of the Workplace Relations Commission Adjudicator, Michael McEntee, in the case of Zaurbek Musaev v TikTok Technology Limited ADJ-00052437 was dismissed and found to be “not properly founded” and must fail.  

In that case, Mr Musaev commenced working at TikTok in Dublin in August 2021 and at the date of the hearing on January 7th continued to work for TikTok.  His complaint related to the fact that his application for full time

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