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Representation at Disciplinary Hearings for Agency Workers – How Do I Handle It?
Published on: 17/11/2020
Issues Covered:
Discipline Atypical Working
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Employment Team at RDJ LLP
Deirdre Malone Partner & Head of Employment Law, EY Law
Deirdre Malone Partner & Head of Employment Law, EY Law
Deirdre malone

Deirdre leads EY Law Ireland’s employment law team, advising clients on day-to-day employment law queries arising at every stage of the employment relationship. She also advises on strategic workforce planning, workforce restructuring and HR transactions providing straightforward, practical solutions to her clients.


Deirdre is a longstanding member of the Law Society of Ireland’s Employment and Equality Committee. In January 2025, she was appointed to the Employment Law Review Group (ELRG) by the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to support with the ELRG’s function to monitor, review and advise on all aspects of employment and redundancy law in Ireland, with a specific focus on promoting good workplace relations and simplifying the operation of employment and redundancy law.


Combining employment law expertise with a commercial and solution-driven focus, Deirdre is highly regarded by clients. She is ranked by Chambers and Partners (Europe Edition) and Legal 500 for her work in employment law. 

"We have a number of agency workers working alongside our employees and understand that there is a recent case from the Labour Court around representation for those workers in meetings. The agency workers want to access our employees’ representatives to attend at external processes (such as representation during disciplinary hearings, and other consultation processes). We want to be fair to all workers, but we don’t want our direct employees (as employee representatives) becoming involved in external processes with third party employment agencies. How do we handle these requests?"

The Labour Court issued a decision last month confirming that an agency worker’s entitlement to the same terms and conditions of employment as those doing the same work in the hiring entity

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