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.
A recent Workplace Relations Commission (‘WRC’) decision in the case of Amy Farrell v An Garda Síochána (ADJ-00036366) has brought the features of fixed-term contracts into focus. The Complainant had raised a complaint under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 (the ‘Act’) for not having received a contract of indefinite duration many years after starting work with the Respondent.
Background
The background to this case is that the Complainant had been a ‘relief’ cleaner on commencing her employment with the Respondent in 2016. In 2016 and 2017, she worked in different stations. From 2017 onwards she worked 37 hours per week consistently during the same days of the week. She did not receive any of
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