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Ireland: Reasonable accommodation duties—WRC award and practical steps for employers after Tracy v Smurfit Kappa and Nano Nagle

Published on: 11 March 2025

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The Outlook Report details the Central Bank’s supervisory priorities and principal regulatory plans for the year, and shares its view of the main trends and threats influencing the financial services industry. It further includes three ‘Spotlight’ chapters on consumer protection, artificial intelligence and geopolitical risk, topics of particular importance for the sector. Governor Makhlouf’s correspondence sets out the Central Bank’s financial regulation priorities, while the Dear CEO Letter outlines the Central Bank’s refreshed supervisory model and condenses the cross‑industry supervisory priorities and key regulatory initiatives examined in the Outlook Report.

In the recent matter of Mary Tracy v. Smurfit Kappa Ireland Limited t/a the Educational Company of Ireland (decisions available here and here), the Workplace Relations Commission (the WRC) directed the employer to pay €64,000 in total for: (i) failing to consider or investigate any reasonable accommodations for an employee with a disability; and (ii) the discriminatory dismissal of that employee. The ruling serves to remind employers of their duties under the Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015 (the EEA), notably the obligation to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities in recruitment, deployment and day‑to‑day workplace practices and related decisions...

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