With Lorenzono on route and questions arising about attendance at work and payment for non attendance, I am republishing the guidelines from the WRC on this matter as published back in early 2018. And whilst circumstances will vary greatly across business sectors and parts of the country, good communication and a common sense but flexible approach that always puts employees safety first is key....

With Opehlia, Brian, Dylan and Eleanor causing havoc across the country in the last few months, the Workplace Relations Commission recently published an useful Q&A on it's website about some of the main issues that arise when employees may not be able to get to work....

With Storm Brian on the way just days after the whole country was on red alert due to Storm Ophelia, employers may once again need to consider how they deal with the "grey" area of paying employees when it is unsafe to attend work due to unforeseen weather circumstances arising....

In a recent case (UD 346/2013) where a Purchasing Assistant with over 12 years service was awarded €19,000 for unfair dismissal because she had sent confidential emails to her husband, even though the information was not used by her husband or of use to him, a number of process issues were highlighted that are useful to review....

Following on from my summary last week of what constitutes gross misconduct in the workplace,this recently published case (UD/323/2012) illustrates how gross misconduct dismissals can be fair and reasonable if the sanction is relevant to the specific business objectives of the employer....