okay it's Friday the 5th of you and I'm just taking a look at my Twitter feed I
see one of the first things that comes true there honor is yes that's referred
to by very crucial solicitor who's retweeting when did our solicitors tweet
but it's about dismissal disability and reasonable accommodation a world of two
years salary this actually is my case is the case that I brought on behalf of the
employee and have written about it on my website employment rights errands calm
and I've made a video about it as well if you wanna have a look but the
commentary here is that the case involving a shop assistant and a
hardware and tool her Center this is very useful for summarizing the law and
employee is absent on sick leave and the obligation on the employer to make
reasonable accommodation for the employee and so on that claim was
brought under the employment Equality Act and the question arose or the
decision had to be made as to whether to bring it under the employment Equality
Act or the unfair dismissals act and we brought it under the employment Equality
Act thankfully
the next three dice e there that might be in some interest to somebody or the
people generally interested in the law an indeed interested in a quiet night
sleep and so on is to do with the tort of nuisance emergency legislation is
being urgently demand us to help Guardi tackle lockdown
house parties and thus to do with a whole Cove in 1913 and the development
of house parties apparently becoming a thing which obviously is incredibly
irresponsible and selfish but you can make an application through the district
court honor the Environmental Protection Agency Act of 1992 which involves the
tort of nuisance a tort is a civil wrong and a significant interference with the
peaceful enjoyment of your home is a serious matter and you can seek a
restraining order to the district court so that's something that you might
consider if your neighbors are carrying on and making life difficult for you and
obviously there is a serious amount of dismay as well on behalf of many people
who would be absolutely frustrated our neighbors and having parties in the
current covert 19 circumstances especially we have small business owners
facing ruin quite frankly who are unable to
unable to trade and I've had many small business owners contact me with various
issues over the last few weeks and he wants to do with employment law to do
with being allowed to open up again to do with competitors perhaps trading on
the slide and so on really depends on your business on the nature of your
business as to create a fit into this roadmap for returning to work or return
into some degree of normality I see clear Bruton who is a barrister a very
well-regarded barrister in employment law she has written an article there
apparently in the current edition of the I think it's the law library or the era
councils magazine has to do with employment law and the whole question of
working from home and what employees and indeed employers should learn about
working for home just have to look at the tweet here now yeah it's law library
and it's to do with that article it's in the bar review the bar over and the
article actually must have a look at that myself because I see I have access
to it I wasn't aware of that so I will have access to it and I'm
gonna have a look at that and see what it says because Claire Bruton knows her
stuff when it comes to employment law plenty of tweets there now as well about
the return to business to what approaches or might approach normal
business and I see there as businesses continue to reopen over the coming weeks
it's important to have an up-to-date and up-to-date employee handbook okay as was
saying there there's quite a bit of tweeting about and obviously concerned
about businesses going to reopen and a requirement or the good sense and the
businesses having an up-to-date employee handbook covering any new changes in the
workplace so obviously the whole return to work situation would have brought
about this return to work safely protocols for employers and obviously
that may have brought about some changes in the workplace and may have brought
about some requirement to change the employee handbook I'm not sure to be
honest with you the extent to which the employee handbook would need to be
changed to reflect the changes in the workplace with a view to making things
safer for employees and so forth but that's something that you perhaps
shouldn't consider depending on I suppose your particular circumstances
what type of business you have and so on I see their tweet at large stores and
playgrounds are to reopen on Monday ahead of the schedule according to the
Irish Times so that's good news I think that gets us back to some degree of
normality has to be welcomed they see our Lord on alert tweeting or lor
Donnelly's the is the RTE team she's the Legion affairs correspondent but she's
referring there and tweeting about the authority and waters case where they
brought the high court proceedings judicial review about the cove in
nineteen locked down and so on and so forth but the High Court issued its
ruling yesterday in relation to costs and amongst other things
mr.justice menon said the manner in which they conducted their proceedings
they are failure to consider or answer the case being made against them and to
only have regard to their own opinions meant these proceedings were very far
from being in the public interest and the cost of the two days high court
hearing was awarded against waters and order hearty and anybody who has ever
had any concern about going to court or who has ever turned their mind to
worrying about the cost of going to court will obviously not disagree with
this ruling because if you go to the High Court or indeed any court and you
lose then there is consequences that must be visited upon you unless there
are public interest issues and reasons for doing so and clearly in this case or
Daugherty and waters case was not held to be in the public interest or at least
the way that they conducted the proceedings were far from being in the
public interest to quote mr. justice meaning I do
understand that they're going to appeal this and again that's the matter for
themselves but at the moment of the high court's costs or the cost of being in
the High Court for the two days has been awarded against general Daugherty and
John Waters good suit which general as well about redundancy and the
entitlement if a knee to enhanced redundancy payments wage cuts layoffs
and so forth in my own practice here I am seeing a lot of redundancies I've
seen a lot of queries from employees about layoffs about short-time about
redundancy about what the difference is and so on you would need legal advice
but from an employer's perspective you need legal advice as well just to steer
yourself through safely the rocks that is employment law in Ireland for
redundancies and claims for redundancies and claims for unfair dismissal arising
from purported redundancies are claims that probably are going to spring up in
great quantities in prodigious quantities in fact in the WRC over the
next period of time and I see Richard Grogan solicit their that the UK's and
is bracing for a redundancy surge and the WRC can expect a similar surge here
so I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see that and finally in this video I'm
looking at Barry cushions video or not video tweet that both Sweden Sweden has
had 4468 covered 19 deaths whereas Denmark and Norway each with
about half their neighbor's population have had five hundred and eighty and two
hundred and thirty seven respectively I'll just give you those figures again
because at the outset of this corporate 19 storm
people were looking at Sweden and saying why can't we be like Sweden why can't we
do what they do we could have done that all right I would have suffered the
catastrophic number of deaths that they have suffered and the Swedish expert now
admits country should have had tighter various recommendations and procedures
in place but to give you the figures again Sweden has twice the number of
population of Denmark and Norway and yes Sweden has had four thousand four
hundred and sixty eight covert 19 deaths whereas Denmark and Norway have had five
hundred and eighty and two hundred and thirty-seven now if you were a public
health official and if you were the public health official who steered or
encouraged or aiders and abetters this particular policy I'd feel pretty bad
it's like a fella going to the casino and putting everything on red and black
comes in the ball lands on black and you walk away there's going to be a
commission to investigate in Sweden in Stockholm their approach to the pandemic
but it's interesting as to say to see what has happened over the affliction of
time as it were and to see exactly how enlightened the Swedish approach was or
how enlightened the Irish approach was for example versus even the UK if you
watch the Channel 4 News on a night you'll see that the death figures the
mortality rate from Cova 19 in the UK is absolutely appalling so I think in
fairness we have done a pretty much hopefully it will continue to dampen
down and we'll get over this hope you find this video useful