Unfair Dismissal Blog
Plain-English guides to the dismissal law people actually meet — the letter, the resignation, the probation review, the sick leave, the retirement date — and the WRC process from complaint to appeal.
Unfair Dismissal in Ireland: The Complete Guide
The presumption of unfairness, the fair grounds, the procedure, the service rule, the six-month limit and the three forms of redress - in one place.
Dismissed Without Warning: Is It Legal?
Summary dismissal, the procedure that is still required, the notice you may be owed, and what to do in the first 48 hours.
Dismissed With Less Than 12 Months’ Service: Your Options
The Acts may not apply - but the section 20 Labour Court route, the equality route, protected disclosures and notice claims might.
How Unfair Dismissal Compensation Is Calculated in Ireland
The section 7 formula: financial loss, the 104-week cap, the four-week floor, mitigation - and why there is no official average.
The WRC Six-Month Time Limit and Reasonable Cause
How the date of dismissal is fixed, what the six months means, and the narrow reasonable-cause extension to twelve.
What Happens at a WRC Hearing
The complaint form, mediation, submissions 15 working days out, the public hearing, evidence on oath and the written decision.
Before You Resign: The Constructive Dismissal Checklist
Grievance first, evidence second, the resignation letter third - the sequence that keeps a constructive dismissal claim alive.
Forced to Resign Because of Bullying
Constructive dismissal where the conduct is bullying: the Code of Practice, the grievance record and the reasonableness test.
Dismissed After Raising a Grievance or Complaint
Penalisation, the evidence of timing, and the routes that open when the dismissal follows the complaint.
Suspended From Work Pending Investigation: Your Rights
Pay, duration, suspension as a neutral act, and the right to representation - what the employee in the chair can insist on.
Gross Misconduct in Ireland: What Counts and What Does Not
Proportionality, the investigation that must still happen, and the gap between a serious allegation and a fair dismissal.
Can You Be Dismissed While on Sick Leave?
Capability as a fair ground, the medical evidence the employer needs, consultation, and the Employment Equality Acts in parallel.
Dismissed While Pregnant or on Maternity Leave
Section 6(2A): no service requirement, the equality route alongside, and the evidence of timing that decides these cases.
Dismissed for Poor Performance: PIPs and Capability
What a fair capability process looks like, what a performance plan designed to fail looks like, and how to tell them apart.
Demotion or Pay Cut Without Consent
Unilateral variation of the contract, the options it opens, and why working on under protest matters.
Without Prejudice Exit Conversations in Ireland
Ireland has no protected conversation: when without prejudice privilege attaches, and when an exit offer becomes evidence.
Reinstatement, Re-engagement or Compensation
The three forms of redress under section 7, when each is ordered, and why compensation is the usual outcome.
Mitigation of Loss: How Compensation Gets Reduced
Job search evidence, contributory conduct, and the record that protects the award from the first week of unemployment.
Appealing a WRC Decision to the Labour Court
The 42-day limit, the full re-hearing, the point-of-law appeal to the High Court and enforcement after 56 days.
Forced to Retire at 65: New Rights From June 2026
The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025: the notification window, the employer’s reply and the WRC remedy.
Dismissed for Social Media Posts or Conduct Outside Work
The conduct ground applied to life outside work: proportionality, the policy, and the connection the employer must show.
Automatically Unfair Dismissals in Ireland
The section 6(2) grounds, which of them waive the one-year service rule, and why they change the whole case.