Legal News (COVID-19)

Many businesses over the past few days will have found themselves in the position of having to quickly close their doors as they do not provide an essential service.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland and the European Union Intellectual Property Office have extended time limits for certain actions and time-limits.

In these challenging and unprecedented times organisations are rightly concerned about staffing issues and how to keep things “business as usual” when things are far from normal.

The Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) recently published two guidance notes in relation to (i) Data Protection and COVID-19 and (ii) Protection of personal data when working remotely.

On 29 February 2020, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the Republic of Ireland was announced by the National Public Health Emergency Team.

Gill Woods, Consultant to Hayes solicitors’ Employment Law Group summarises and explains recent emergency measures announced by the government for the purposes of protecting employment in Ireland.