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An employee on maternity leave is on “protective leave” and cannot have her contract of employment terminated. This protection also applies to any purported redundancy.
Section 23 of the Maternity Protection Act 1994 provides the protection:
Voidance of certain purported terminations of employment, etc....

In October 2023 the Supreme Court has decided that the drivers in this case are employees.
Here is the full decision.
To understand the background to this 13 year case read these posts:

The Supreme Court have delivered a judgment on 10th May 2023 concerning the issue of suspending an employee pending an investigation.
It its decision in the case of O’Sullivan v HSE [2023] IESC 11 the Supreme Court approved the test set out in the English case Braganza v BP Shipping [2015] 1 W.L.R. This case held that...

The recent High Court decision in the case of Anna Buttimer and Oak Fuel Supermarket Limited Trading as Costcutter Rathcormac deals with the question of termination of employment during the probation period.
In this case Anna Buttimer sought a High Court injunction preventing her employer from terminating her employment, stopping the employer from replacing her in the workplace, preventing the employer from termination of her employment contract, and other...