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In a case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, judges ruled that a company may read an employee’s messages transmitted on Yahoo Messenger while he was at work. The ruling said the man, an engineer in Romania, had breached company policy and his employer had a right to monitor his [...]
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The Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan TD, published the Finance Bill 2014 on the 23rd of October 2014 (“the Bill”). The Bill gives effect to the measures announced in Budget 2015. The Bill includes measures which will benefit the farming community such as: The Bill provides for exemption from Capital Gains Tax on any chargeable [...]
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AHEAD OF BUDGET 2015, the Minister for Finance was undoubtedly advised by some commentators that the best tactic was to make as little change as possible and he appears to have adopted that strategy. Minister Noonan stated that his main objective was to reduce unemployment, and some of the measures that he proposed seem [...]
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20 May '13
Parental Leave in Ireland increased from 14 to 18 weeks and is available to each parent per child as a result of the coming into operation of the European Union (Parental Leave) Regulations 2013 on 8 March 2013. The purpose of these Regulations is to transpose EU Council Directive 2010/18/EU into domestic law: the Directive [...]
