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Reasonable accommodation allowing disabled employees to take up roles

Employers are required under employment equality legislation to consider whether making reasonable accommodations to either the role or the workplace ...

What is direct discrimination?

Direct discrimination occurs when employees or job applicants are treated less favourably than other people because of who they are. Direct ...

Effective recruitment techniques

The recruitment process has evolved rapidly in recent years to keep pace with advances in technology in the information age. A survey of Irish ...

HR approaches to recruitment

Recruiting processes have changed rapidly in recent years due to technological advancements. Even though traditional techniques are still used, ...

Job interviews

A fact highlighted by recruitment service Hays in their 2015 national research study. The findings showed private sector organisations conducted ...

Group interviews

The purpose of group interviews is to allow multiple applicants to be interviewed at the same time. Group interviews present certain challenges for ...

What is discrimination at work?

To protect our equality of opportunity, some of those characteristics — such as race, sex, age, religion and disability — are protected by law ...

Religious discrimination in the workplace

Discrimination on the ground of religion occurs when one person is treated less favourably than another on the ground that one has a different ...

Racial discrimination in the workplace

Racial discrimination at work is specifically prohibited under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015. Race is one of the nine protected grounds ...

Indirect discrimination

Direct discrimination tends to be straightforward to identify. Direct discrimination occurs when one employee is treated differently because of who ...

Disabilities at work

As stated in the Equality Act, it is the responsibility of all employers to make reasonable adjustments in the way in which employment is structured, ...

Culture and performance

They’re about evolving your organisation’s way of working and helping employees reach their potential. If you think that sounds difficult, you’re ...