Employee or independent Contractor: Control, Personal Service, Integration tests, mutuality of obligation, boilerplate clauses, umbrella/global contracts• relevance in the precarious Gig economy context • Types of employee: Permanent, Contracts of Indefinite Duration, Fixed term contracts, Hourly paid employees, 'if and when' workers, Part time workers, Agency workers, Migrant workers, Casual workers, Employment of Young Persons, procedures for redress

Requirement to comply with Anti-Discrimination legislation• Equal Treatment and reasonable accommodation in the process• Forms of Recruitment • Advertising • Application forms • Standardized testing • selection for interview • Interview process• use of questions, process and statistics to determine fair procedures in selection processes • selection for post • references • medicals • background checks and GDPR • Procedures and redress

EU, Constitution and Legislation: The Discrimination model of Equality: Analysis of the 9 grounds of Discrimination, Equal treatment and Equal Pay, elements required to bring a claim, burden of proof, exclusions, eg, objective justification, Limitations of the Discrimination Equality model, Indirect Discrimination, Sexual Harrassment, Positive Discrimination, Redress, role of IHREC, WRC, jurisdiction of the Courts in gender claims, Employer policies on sexual harassment, non-sexual harassment and bullying

Formation of Employment Contracts, including express and implied terms. and collective agreements • Oral and Written Contracts • Statutory Requirements – Written Statement of Terms and Conditions of Employment, • Key Clauses in the Contract of Employment • Variation of Contract • Statutory Guarantees of Terms and Conditions of Employment • Workplace Privacy, Data Protection and social media concerns• vicarious liability

Role and functions of the Workplace Relations Commission, The Labour Court, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Courts in resolving workplace disputes