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 Vahey, Partner RDJ LLP considers this question:
“We are in receipt of a letter from the WRC today attaching a complaint of discriminatory dismissal from an employee whose employment terminated more than 12 months ago, on the 8th of October 2021. This date is identified as the “most recent date of discrimination”. The complaint form is stamped as being received by the WRC on 6th October 2022 at 14:10. Surely this complaint is out of time and cannot be entertained.”
How do I handle it?”
Time considerations ⚓︎
The relevant date, when considering statutory timeframes, is the date of receipt of the complaint form by the WRC, together with the date of discrimination/termination date. Notice may be a relevant
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