Legal News (Corporate)

World Intellectual Property Day 2022 takes place today, 26 April. This year’s theme focuses on “IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future”.

Hayes solicitors LLP has again been recognised in the latest edition of leading international legal directory The Legal 500. Here you can read what some of our clients had to say.

A previous article discussed The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022 (the “Bill”), which was published in late January. By way of reminder, the Bill aims to ensure stricter compliance with Competition law and proper overall functioning of the internal market.

The Irish Government recently published the draft Statutory Sick Leave Bill 2021 (the “Bill”) which was approved by Cabinet on 30 March 2022. It provides for minimum statutory sick pay (SSP) for all employees, if they are incapable of working due to illness or injury.

The European Union (Unfair Trading Practices in the agricultural and food supply chain) Regulations 2021 (“UTP Regulations”) came into effect on 1 July 2021.  There is an important deadline coming up at the end of April (2022) regarding compliance with the UTP Regulations.

The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022 was recently published by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.