An area of significant risk for small employers

An area of serious risk for small employers is the whole area of human relations, disciplinary procedures, workplace investigations, and so forth. The larger employer has HR departments or a number of HR professionals on their payroll. They may even have in house legal counsel and/or external solicitors on retainer. But the small employer who… Continue reading An area of significant risk for small employers

The disciplinary procedure in the Enoch Burke case

Rosemary Mallon BL referred in the High Court last week to the disciplinary process in the dispute between Wilson’s Hospital School and Enoch Burke, the schoolteacher. She referred, if memory serves me correctly, to “stage 4” of the procedure. What is “stage 4”? What was she referring to? I am not going to comment directly… Continue reading The disciplinary procedure in the Enoch Burke case