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Protected Disclosures - How Do I Handle It?
Published on: 29/07/2024
Issues Covered:
Whistleblowing (Protected Disclosures) Grievance and Dispute Resolution
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Antoinette Vahey Partner, RDJ LLP Ireland
Antoinette Vahey Partner, RDJ LLP Ireland
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Antoinette is a Partner, practicing as part of the Employment law team. She brings practical and strategic legal advice to clients in a range of areas such as wrongful and unfair dismissal; discrimination; absenteeism and work related stress; performance management; temporary and contingent workers; collective redundancies; restrictive covenants and severance agreements.

Antoinette represents clients on employment claims in the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and High Court together with gender discrimination claims in the Circuit Court.

Having qualified as a mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution in 2013 (specialising in employment and workplace disputes), Antoinette is focused on expanding RDJ’s independent mediation offering to provide the best solution to our clients.

Antoinette is particularly interested in the areas of transfer of undertakings (TUPE ), Vetting and social media in the workplace and has spoken extensively at various events on legislative and other changes in those areas.

She also devises in-house training sessions and policies for clients in respect of grievance and disciplinary matters, dignity at work and social media.

We held a six-month probationary review meeting with our employee and decided to extend probation by a further three months, as some performance issues have arisen with this employee. She claims that we are penalising her as a result of having made a protected disclosure. What is a protected disclosure? How do I handle it?

Protected Disclosure

The Protected Disclosure Act, 2014 created protections and remedies against employers who penalised workers as a result of making protected disclosures - commonly referred to as whistleblowing. A protected disclosure is the disclosure of “relevant information” which in the “reasonable belief” of the worker tends to show one or more “relevant wrongdoings” which came to the attention of the worker

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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 29/07/2024
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