Irish employment law continued to evolve through 2025, with legislative movement across pay transparency, pensions, equality, and AI governance, alongside active adjudication before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)...
Irish employment law continued to evolve through 2025, with legislative movement across pay transparency, pensions, equality, and AI governance, alongside active adjudication before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Courts that will shape risk and practice into 2026. We set out the key developments employers need to track for 2026 and beyond.
On 5 November 2025, the Government unveiled Ireland's Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining 2026–2030, a phased programme to meet Article 4 of the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive whilst also maintaining Ireland's voluntarist model of union recognition. Proposals include enhanced union access to workplaces, a mandatory mediation window between notice of industrial action and its commencement, potential financial incentives for collective bargaining, and capacity building for the WRC and Labour Court alongside refreshed Codes of Practice. For employers, 2026 will be an opportune time to assess engagement structures, review any existing employee representative forums, and evaluate internal consultation routes in advance of implementation. We wrote about this further here.
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