Agri-Business
42% of agricultural workplaces inspected by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2024 were found in breach of employment law.
Rural Life
The Labour Court has upheld an appeal by Teagasc against a ruling that it pay €40,000 in a discrimination payout to a female statistician.
A pig farm worker has been awarded over €11,500 after it was found that he did not receive paid annual leave that he was entitled to.
Teagasc is to change the way it records the working times of its staff after an inspection by the WRC found non-compliance with legislation.
The WRC recovered €35,584 in unpaid wages in the agriculture sector in 2023, according to its annual report which was published today.
The WRC has ordered that a former driver for Minister of Agriculture Charlie McConalogue receive €30,000 for unfair dismissal.
A state body has been found to have unfairly dismissed a director after he allowed his teenage son to drive a tractor belonging to the body.
Brennans Bread has been ordered to pay €15,000 by the WRC to a former worker who was dismissed for failing to smoke in a designated area.
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a former receptionist in a veterinary practice €15,600 in an unfair dismissal case.
Over 60 inspections were carried out in the agriculture and meat processing sectors in 2021, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) said.
A sanction by the largest pork processor in Ireland to suspend a worker for 10 weeks without pay, was disproportionate.
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered Ballinasloe Co-op Livestock Mart Limited to pay over €3,600 in compensation to a worker.
Dairy
An agricultural worker accused of mistreating a cow has been recommended, by the WRC to receive €500 for unfair dismissal
Over 380 employment law inspections of the agriculture sector have been carried out by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
A total of €188,597 in unpaid wages was recovered from the agricultural sector by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) in 2018.
A former farm manager who suffers from MS has won over €31,000 in a judgement by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
A meat plant has been forced to pay a former employee €11,026 after the WRC found that the butcher had been unfairly dismissed.
Teagasc has eased some of the burden faced by dairy farmers when it comes to employing staff with the publication of its 'Best Practice in Recruiting and Managing Employees' manual.
