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Inside this issue:
Recruitment
1
Terms and conditions of
employment
1
Status of Relationship
2
Industrial Relations
3
Transfer Regulations
4
Termination of
employment relationship
4
Useful contacts
5
EU Labour Law
Recruitment
Equality and non-discrimination
Under Direct ive 2000/78 EC
transposed
in
Ireland by the
Employment Equality Acts 1998-2007
discrimination in employment on any
one of the following nine grounds is
outlawed:
- Age
- Gender
- Marital status
- Family status
- Disability
- Race
- Sexual orientation
- Religious belief
- Membership of
the Travelling
Community
These Acts cover all stages of the
recruitment process
from the
wording of the job advertisement, the
selection criteria, conduct of the
interview,
through to the final
selection decision.
Job ads
The publication or display of an ad
which
indicates an
intention to
discriminate, or might reasonably be
understood as indicating such an
intention is prohibited.
Example: The Equality Tribunal found
that an airline company discriminated
on grounds of age in relation to the
wording of a job advertisement for the
post of Director of Regulatory Affairs.
The advertisement stated: “the ideal
candidate will be young and dynamic”.
Terms and conditions of
employment
Under Directive 91/533/EEC
implemented in Ireland by the
Terms of Employment (Information)
Act, 1994 employers have to
provide their employees with a
written statement of terms and
conditions
relating
to
their
employment within two months of
commencing employment.
It must include the following
information:
- The full names of the employer
and the employee
- The address of the employer
- The place of work
- Job title or nature of the work
- Date of commencement of
employment
- In the case of a temporary
contract or a fixed-term contract, its
expected duration
- Basic amount, and other
components of remuneration and
frequency of payment;
- Employee's no