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The csae of Nkemka Patrick Okachi v Sodexo Ireland Limited (ADJ-00045306) provides lots of learning on the necessity for fair and objective processes before taking the decision to dismiss.
Your personal data will only be used/processed for the intended agreed business purpose or as necessary for legal purposes and compliance, which will largely relate to communication with you and the performance of a contract or proposed contract to provide you with HR Services.
Your personal data may also be used where it is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or if necessary to protect our legitimate interests and rights, and this does not override your legitimate interests and rights.
The following are some of the main purposes for which your data will be used and which are all based on our legitimate business interests being pursued and the performance of business contracts
To respond to enquiries about services
To provide advice and services
To collect payments due for services provided.
Personal Data may be stored physically in a hard copy in our secure office environment with limited access, or electronically through our web provider, ModxCloud, which is currently based in the Netherlands.
It is not our practice to disclose or transfer your personal data to third parties or to allow third parties to access personal data, unless it is on the basis of a legitimate business, regulatory or legal request to access personal data.
The following rights are available to you under the GDPR in respect of your personal data. These rights are only exercisable by the individual data subject to whom the data applies
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or accounting requirements. This means that the period for which we store your personal data may depend on the type of data we hold.
May 28th 2018
The csae of Nkemka Patrick Okachi v Sodexo Ireland Limited (ADJ-00045306) provides lots of learning on the necessity for fair and objective processes before taking the decision to dismiss.
The recent awards against WIDA in resepct of the penalisation of its Director of Services following the raising of protected disclosures is a necessary read for Board members and employers.
5 days paid leave will now be available to employees who have a miscarriage before 23 weeks gestation.
The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025 will now commence on 29th June 2026 and provides that where an employee is subject to a contractual retirement age (‘CRA’) that is below the state pension age (66 years), they may request to continue working up to state pension age.
An award of €7,000 to an employee who was refused a second paid days force majeure leave when his wife miscarried, proved to be a costly refusal for the employer concerned.
With the recent formal announcement from the Department of Equality that the transposition of the European Pay Directive will be delayed, this case is a useful read around the potential issues that can arise (and how to mitigate them) with the likely increase in equal pay claims, as employees exercise their right to obtain information on colleagues average rates of pay.
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