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.
Lay-offs were possibly not one of the more commonly used sections of an employment contract for most sectors. However, Covid-19 brought the issue of lay-offs and short-time working to the fore as many industries could not continue to operate. This highlighted the importance of having lay-off provisions within employment contracts. Further, the recent decision of Patricia O’Malley v Pallomar Limited [2022] (ADJ-00029863) considered the issue of how lay-off provisions interact with notice payments and provides further clarity on this issue.
Background ⚓︎
The Complainant was a restaurant manager who was full time and permanent. Her employment was terminated further to a period of lay-off during the Covid pandemic on 10 August 2020. The Complainant was not paid in
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