Matthew McGranahan v MEPC Music Limited [2024]
Decision Number: ADJ-00037668 Legal Body: Workplace Relations Commission
Published on: 02/04/2025
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Duncan Inverarity Employment Mediator (CEDR Accredited) and Investigator
Duncan Inverarity Employment Mediator (CEDR Accredited) and Investigator
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Duncan Inverarity is a former a partner and Head of A&L Goodbody's Employment Law group and practiced exclusively in the area of employment law and industrial relations in multiple jurisdictions. Duncan advised public and private sector employers on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He advised Board rooms across Ireland and abroad on strategic and complex employment and industrial relations matters. Duncan also specialised in crisis management for clients and advised on some of the most high profile corporate issues in Ireland. Duncan regularly appeared for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Duncan also acted for partnerships in mediated settlements and in proceedings in the High Court.

Duncan now works as an Employment Mediator (CEDR Accredited)  and Investigator. 

Summary

A former fiddler for top country music star Michael English was awarded nearly €44,000 in the WRC for unfair dismissal and breaches of employment rights after a tribunal rejected claims that the musician was a contractor working “gig to gig” for six years

Background

The Complainant is a musician (fiddler) who started providing his services to the Respondent band in January 2014. In May 2020, the Complainant contacted the Scope Section of the Department of Social Protection alleging that he believed he fitted the criteria for being an employee and was therefore eligible for the Pandemic Unemployment Payments. Scope determined that the Complainant was an employee for the purposes of social insurance. However, the Respondent successfully appealed this decision

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