Industry and Employment Correspondent
From the United States to Israel, from Australia to Ireland - most agree that a rapid rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination is the key to reopening the economy.
But already, employers, unions and lawyers are grappling with thorny issues around vaccination - including what happens when an employee does not want to get vaccinated.
Publican Noel Anderson, who chairs the Licensed Vintners Association, is desperate to reopen his two bars: Lemon and Duke in Dublin city centre, and the Bridge in Ballsbridge. Our industry is decimated, he says. I have colleagues who have been closed for nearly 13 months. We ourselves have been closed three times and I ve had to lay off 70 staff three times. There is nothing more difficult.
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The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has criticised aspects of proposed new online safety legislation.
The Commission says the current approach in the draft Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill to defining harmful online content is vague and open-ended, and lacks legal certainty .
It also says it is concerned that the role and functions of the new Online Safety Commissioner lacks detail in the planned new law.
The comments were made in the Commission s submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Media, which is considering the general scheme of the bill. This draft law is seeking to tackle some of the most important challenges facing our society; from the moderation of online content by big tech to children s online safety, and broader issues of online harassment and tackling online hate, said Sinéad Gibney, IHREC Chief Commissioner.
GDPR Is Failing By Not Being Enforced
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation was put into effect on May 25th 2018 butthere are still many areas of confusion, especially concerning which types of data to delete and what is okay to keep. The drive behind the regulation was to bring the historical patchwork of laws and obligations about personal data, privacy and consent across Europe up to speed and make them fit for purpose in a world dominated by surveillance capitalism.
On the face of it, the GDPR looks like a valuable piece of legislation, but according to some of its critics, GDPR has failed to protect personal data and that failure is killing the media and social institutions.