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.
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 lieu of notice and brought a complaint.
The facts of the case were largely agreed by the parties that the Complainant was made redundant at the end of her employment with the Respondent. The Complainant argued that she was entitled to a payment of eight weeks of statutory notice on foot of this redundancy.
The Respondent made two arguments on that front:
- that the Complainant had no entitlement to a notice payment under the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act (the
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