IFUT has warmly welcomed a Recommendation from the Labour Court that disciplinary warnings against a University Academic who had been punished for not following orders regarding his Research Plans should be quashed and expunged from his employment record.
The Labour Court also recommended (LCR 19466) that the university, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), should “proceed as swiftly [...]
The Supreme Court has made a Judgement in a case regarding threatened disciplinary action against a Professor in UCC.
The Judgement has interesting implications regarding tenure for university staff.
The full text of the judgement is available here (Members only).
A Rights Commissioner has upheld IFUT’s claim that a formal written warning issued to one of its members in TCD must be quashed because the College Procedures were flawed and unfair.
IFUT argued successfully that so-called “Witness Statements” had not been signed until 10 months after they were written up. It was also held to be [...]