Dublin is where Irish dismissal law is actually decided: the Workplace Relations Commission hears most of its cases at Lansdowne House in Ballsbridge, the Labour Court sits across the city, and the High Court that hears appeals on a point of law is a short walk along the quays from our office at The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper. An unfair dismissal solicitor in Dublin is working in the one county where every forum in the process is local.
Unfair Dismissal Claims in Dublin
The Dublin workforce produces the full range of dismissal claims because it has the full range of employers: the multinational technology and financial services companies whose performance frameworks, stock plans and global policies generate the capability and conduct cases; the public sector and semi-state bodies with their own disciplinary codes layered over the Code of Practice; and the thousands of small employers in retail, hospitality, construction and professional services where the dismissal is often delivered in a single conversation and the procedure has to be reconstructed afterwards. Each sector has its own habits. A multinational will usually have run a documented process, so the case is about whether the process was genuine and the sanction proportionate; a small employer will often have skipped it, so the case is about the presumption of unfairness and the section 7 arithmetic.
WRC hearings in Dublin are in public at Lansdowne House, with the parties named in the published decision unless special circumstances exist, and remote hearings are available unless the interests of justice require otherwise. Mediation, which is free, voluntary and confidential, is offered first and resolves most of the cases that take it up. A Labour Court appeal is a full re-hearing and must be lodged within 42 days of the WRC decision. For employees with under a year of service, which is a large group in a city with high staff turnover, the Labour Court section 20 route and the Employment Equality Acts are often the routes that remain, and both are heard in Dublin too.
The Dublin office at The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7, D07 EE37, serves Dublin clients in person by appointment, with out of hours appointments available, and by phone and Zoom, and most dismissal work runs on documents rather than meetings: the contract, the handbook, the dismissal letter, the disciplinary correspondence and the payslips. The six-month WRC limit under section 8(2) runs from the date of dismissal as section 1 defines it, the date notice expired or should have expired, and is extendable to twelve months only for reasonable cause, so the first consultation fixes that date before anything else. Either side may appeal a WRC decision to the Labour Court within 42 days, and an unappealed decision must be carried out within 56 days, after which the District Court can enforce it. Employers in Dublin defending a claim get the same analysis from the other side: whether the stated ground is one of the fair grounds in section 6(4), whether the record shows a procedure that matched S.I. 146/2000, and whether free WRC mediation or an early settlement makes more commercial sense than a public hearing. We never act for both sides of the same dispute.
How We Work With Dublin Clients
Dismissal claims run on documents, phone, Zoom and email — the contract, the dismissal letter, the disciplinary correspondence, the payslips — so distance costs nothing: we act for clients in every county from our Dublin and Kilkenny offices, and WRC hearings themselves are increasingly held remotely. The first consultation is the same wherever you are: your position on the documents, the realistic routes, and the six-month clock running on you. Start with the Dismissal Claim Route Finder, and check your own deadline on the WRC Deadline Calculator.
Mary Molloy Solicitors advise on employment law. Nothing on this page is advice on tax or on social welfare entitlements — take that advice separately. WRC procedure and time limits are strictly applied, and a late complaint is usually a lost complaint. Take advice before resigning, before signing anything, and before any deadline passes.
Dismissed or Forced Out in Dublin?
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