Walmar Consulting & Engineering

16/03/2021

Recruitment & Pre-Employment Records?
Sometimes employers are uncertain about how long to keep records of recruitments. In relation to unsuccessful applicants, a retention period of 1 year is regarded as appropriate.
The period of 1 year allows for sufficient time for any claims to have arisen e.g. for discrimination, etc., and to have the data available to defend such claims.

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04/02/2021

You may have noticed from, time to time, that some workplaces display an anti-bullying statement. The recently published “Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Prevention and Resolution of Bullying at Work” (2020 Code) replaces the separate codes of the HSA and WRC, and states that organisations should display a summary of their anti-bullying policy prominently within the workplace.
Link to the Code on the Health and Safety Authority web: https://www.hsa.ie/eng/publications_and_forms/publications/codes_of_practice/code_of_practice_for_employers_and_employees_on_the_prevention_and_resolution_of_bullying_at_work1.html

21/11/2019

To retire or not to retire ... CIPD Midlands will be updating us on what's what regarding retirement age in Ireland at the moment - since we can now measure biological age (as per lots of research projects and programmes such as "How to Stay Young" RTÉ2) how relevant anyway are chronological years to retirement?

The Midlands Region of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is delighted to announce details of an upcoming talk “The Age-Old Problem of Mandatory Retirement in Employment”. This event, will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone at 6:15pm on Thursday, 28th November 201...

21/10/2019

Digital Futures Breakfast Briefing Workshop

10/09/2019

Northwest CIPD are delighted to host our upcoming event Dignity at Work: Advice for Employers for addressing Bullying & Harassment in the Workplace which will be presented by the WRC on Thursday the 19th September at 8.30am. This event will take place in the Institute of Technology, Sligo. Parking w...

10/06/2019

For a great infographic of the Legal Duties of Charity Trustees by the Charities Regulator go to :

15/05/2019

Do you want to get involved in National Volunteering Week and celebrate all things volunteering? Check out some ideas on how to get involved below!

06/03/2019

Did you know that using an email work address without consent of the individual may be a data protection breach? *"marketing material that is directly relevant to the role of the recipient in the context of their commercial or official activity (i.e. within their workplace) may be sent by an organisation without the prior consent of the recipient"* BUT *"in order to rely on this exception to the general rule requiring consent, the sender must be able to show that the email sent related solely to the recipient’s commercial or official activity, in other words, that it was a genuine business-to-business communication."* page 46 Annual Report Data Protection Commission pre-GDPR 2018, p 46

26/02/2019

Looking forward to this afternoon's workshop on the implementation of the new Charities Regulator Governance Code in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel in Athlone with The Wheel .

Come along to this half-day workshop to learn how your organisation can reach compliance with the Charities Regulator new Governance Code.

25/01/2019

Thanks to The Wheel for the excellent webinar this morning on the Charities Governance Codehttps://www.charitiesregulator.ie/media/1609/charities-governance-code.pdf by the Charities Regulator
In summary:
1. Note the deadlines
2. Read the Code carefully
3. Assign Responsibility
4. Ask for help

19/11/2018

The has opened up an online public consultation on what we think should be the main focus for the next three years. We went online and did it - very easy and quick and there is a place where you can write your own ideas and comment. Deadline: 30th Nov 👉

In 2016, we launched our first ‘Statement of Strategy 2016 – 2018’ to guide the organisation through its formative years. The development of the second Statement of Strategy 2019 – 2022 is currently underway. We are now seeking the views of interested and affected stakeholders to inform the ...