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Dan O’Neill @activedan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life… Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.” - James Joyce, Ulysses

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Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology @maynoothlaw.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

. @profmdoherty.bsky.social recently spoke at the 13th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference, held on May 29th 2025 at Ulster University See: tinyurl.com/59hd99fm

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Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology @maynoothlaw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Dr David Mangan & @profmdoherty.bsky.social participated in an event organised by the Research Centre for Technology Law & Policy at #maynoothlaw, entitled, 'The Legal Challenges in the Digitalisation of Work'. Read more here: tinyurl.com/5d9s8zcz

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Do retailers have to provide single sex toilets and changing rooms for their customers and staff? Good post on some practical implications for employers of UK Supreme Court judgment on the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010 www.irwinmitchell.com/news-and-ins...

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Do retailers have to provide single sex toilets and changing rooms for their customers and staff?

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Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology @maynoothlaw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

21 May, @pintofscienceie.bsky.social event 'The Winding Road: Rights, Roles, and Recovery' takes place @profmdoherty.bsky.social will talk about how people who work in the gig economy are currently protected under employment law in Ireland. See: pintofscience.ie/event/the-wi...

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Lovely day for some #derecholaboral at the IX Congreso Iberoamericano y Europeo de Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social, in beautiful #Oporto

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Event on the Legal Challenges of regulating #digitalisation of work #algorithmicdecisionmaking #AI May 7th Speakers include leading lawyers, academics, and social partners. @maynoothlaw.ie @ria.ie RSVP : www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/events/l...

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Actors and Roles in EU #DisabilityLaw new, open-access, edited by the brilliant Delia Ferri & Eva Krolla @maynoothlaw.bsky.social My ch is 'The Path is Made by Walking…The Social Partners and Employment Rights under EU Disability Law' @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/actors-an...

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Actors and Roles in EU Disability Law

This open access book looks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry. It provides novel approaches to studying E…

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Torsten Müller @etui.bsky.social explaining how the #AdequateMinimumWageDirective is already having a positive effect on how minimum wages are set across the EU at the #ICTU #minimumwage event @forsatradeunion.bsky.social #mayday #labourday

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Paul MacFlynn @neriresearch.bsky.social outlines the empirical research showing the almost non-existent effects of a statutory #minimumwage on overall employment levels (contradicting arguments that introducing/raising the minimum wage increases unemployment)

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

On International #labourday it's worth considering this excellent analysis by Emanuele Menegatti for @etui.bsky.social of the AG opinion on #AdequateMinimumWage Directive. We await the CJEU decision... #mayday #amwd www.etui.org/publications...

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

As part of the Pint of Science 2025 festival, I'll be at the Harcourt Bar & Garden on May 21st to chat about employment rights in the #gigeconomy Free tickets available below. Pop along for a 🍸 of debate! @pintofscienceie.bsky.social @maynoothlaw.bsky.social pintofscience.ie/event/the-wi...

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The Winding Road: Rights, Roles, and Recovery

Our laws, policies and systems are meant to protect the most vulnerable in our societies, but are they actually working as they should? Walk in the shoes o…

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Excellent thread about the UK Supreme Court judgment on the definition of sex as used in the Equality Act 2010 (which is what the case was about). Very welcome depth and nuance in this analysis

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Aislinn @aislinnoc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Back at work today, and full of thoughts about the Supreme Court judgment last week. It’s much more nuanced than it might seem at first glance, and it’s hard to cut through the vitriol around it. That’s understandable - it’s obviously very emotive. I’m going to try break down the legal principles.

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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

⚖️ With the future of the #MinimumWageDirective hanging in the balance, Professor Emanuele Menegatti responds to the recent Advocate General opinion on the claimed incompatibility of the Directive with EU law, arguing why it should be refuted Read it here 🔗 etui.org/ZL4

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Derek Mooney @dsmooney.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Survey shows Ireland has one of the highest “over qualification” rates) in #EU [When those with higher education are employed in jobs that don’t require such a high level of education.] ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

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EU’s employment rate reached almost 76% in 2024

In 2024, 75.8% (197.6 million people) of the EU’s 20 to 64-year-olds were employed, the highest share recorded since the start of the time series in 2009. The employment rate was up 0.5 percentage poi...

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

on the triumph of tribalism. the club lens has consumed the way we watch and talk and write about football these days. punditry, social media, even journalism. to the point where performative tribalism has become the only acceptable way of "enjoying" football www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Pundits’ showy partisanship reflects football’s embrace of fan-centric populism | Jonathan Liew

The coverage of Manchester United’s win over Lyon last week was just the latest sign that fandom is consuming everything

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"is it still possible to be indifferent to rival clubs rather than performatively hating them?... is there still a way of discussing or enjoying football beyond the most tribal, wilfully blinkered lens?" Testify @jonathanliew www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Pundits’ showy partisanship reflects football’s embrace of fan-centric populism | Jonathan Liew

The coverage of Manchester United’s win over Lyon last week was just the latest sign that fandom is consuming everything

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Many congrats to Dr @billholohan.bsky.social who passed his viva today @northumbriauni.bsky.social Also to his wonderful supervisors, Prof Elaine Hall, and Dr James Gray. Very pleased to be involved as supervisor adjacent!!! #thedoctorwillseeyounow

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Ask Shrimsley: Can I follow Katy Perry into space? - on.ft.com/3RqUI0E via @FT "maybe future generations can look forward to the Ryanair Galactic, blasting off from Luton at 2am. Of course, excess carry-on will cost you £7mn and you’ll have to pay extra for a spacesuit." 🤣🤣

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Ask Shrimsley: Can I follow Katy Perry into space?

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out how to get selected for Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Launch of the public consultation on Ireland's #collectivebargaining action plan, in line with the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive #AMWD and the recommendations arising from the Final Report of the LEEF High Level Group on Collective Bargaining (which I Chaired) enterprise.gov.ie/en/consultat...

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Consultation on Ireland’s action plan on the promotion of collective bargaining

The objective of this consultation is to gather views from relevant stakeholders in relation to the possible content of Ireland’s national action plan and how Ireland can progressively increase and pr...

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Former restaurant chef wins almost €6k at WRC. #MinimumNotice based on 14 years service=6 weeks x €750= €4500. Review of notice periods under the 1973 Act will be undertaken by the #EmploymentLaw Review Group (which I Chair; enterprise.gov.ie/en/publicati...) www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Former Dublin restaurant chef wins almost €6,000 at WRC

The Neighbourhood restaurant told to pay culinary arts student €650

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

New WRC decision #employmentstatus A Residential Tenancies Board adjudicator was NOT an employee applying the #Karshan Supreme Ct test The terms of the contract, in light of the factual matrix/working arrangements, were NOT consistent w employee status www.workplacerelations.ie/en/cases/202...

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Gerard N. Murphy VS Residential Tenancies Board

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Michael Doherty @profmdoherty.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Do you think this is funny? Home. Now. 🌧⛈️🌧 #MissEllie #hardstare

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