Paternity Leave - Joshua Selfridge v BK Groundworks (UD 1481/2009)
Published on: 06/08/2015
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David Fagan Irish Privacy Lawyer
David Fagan Irish Privacy Lawyer
David fagan

David Fagan is an Irish privacy lawyer.  Previously he was a partner in Eversheds, a large global law firm and headed the Irish data privacy unit. A number of years ago he set up own consultancy practice in conjunction with a number of other equally experienced lawyers and professionals.

Some of the matters that David has been involved in are:

  • Managing multi-jurisdictional privacy projects across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
  • Co-ordinating compliance teams and operational teams to achieve multi-jurisdictional compliance, whilst meeting commercial goals.
  • Advising on the former Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield schemes, GDPR, ePrivacy and GDPR issues for non-EU companies, particulary in relation to BREXIT.
  • Dealing with transactional privacy work, access requests, due diligence etc.
  • Dealing with Data Privacy issues and prosecutions in the Courts, and with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
  • Advising on practical matters such as Privacy notices, storage issues, dealing with the DPC, transferring data to non EU servers, marketing restrictions and the entire range of non-contentious matters that arise in a Privacy compliance context.
  • Providing legal Opinions on whether or not a particular practice or method of operation is lawful from a Privacy law perspective.
  • Auditing businesses at their request to ascertain their Privacy Law and GDPR compliance.
  • Supporting and assisting business, public bodies, and other organisations to be as efficient and cost effective as is legally or commercially possible.

Joshua Selfridge v BK Groundworks (UD 1481/2009)

Legislation: Unfair Dismissals Acts, 1997 TO 2007 (the “Acts”)
Jurisdictions/Subject Matter: Paternity Leave

A decision in the above case was recently delivered by the Employment Appeals Tribunal. We asked David Fagan to set out details of the case and review legal entitlements around paternity leave.


Facts

This case came before the Tribunal as an appeal against a recommendation of the Rights Commissioner. The appellant/employee represented himself and no appearance or representation was made on behalf of the respondent employer.

The employee started working for the employer in September 2000. In 2008, the employee’s wife fell pregnant and he submitted a request to take 2 or 3 days off when the baby was born.

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 06/08/2015
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