Established in 1825 in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in Cork, London, New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco, more than 700 people work across Matheson’s six offices, including 96 partners and tax principals and over 470 legal and tax professionals. Matheson services the legal needs of internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland. Our clients include over half of the world’s 50 largest banks, 6 of the world’s 10 largest asset managers, 7 of the top 10 global technology brands and we have advised the majority of the Fortune 100.
The President signed the Protection Of Employees (Temporary
Agency Work) Act 2012 has been signed into law. Most of the
provisions of the Act are deemed to have come into effect on 5
December 2011 and the remaining provisions come into effect on 17
May 2012.
The Act gives effect to Directive 2008/104/EC on temporary
agency work and for that purpose amends certain existing
legislation. The purpose of the legislation is to as to give equal
treatment in terms of basic working and employment conditions for
temporary agency workers as if they were recruited directly by the
hirer to the same job.
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