Remote working: One day in the Dublin office each month is ‘reasonable’ request for Kerry-based worker, tribunal finds

The ruling comes after the employer had pulled back from requesting their employee Rafael Jorge back on-site at least twice a week.

In a decision published today, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has rejected a complaint by Mr Jorge against his former employer, Centric Mental Health of RSA House, Sandyford Road, Dundrum, Dublin 16.

It is the second ever ruling in a case pursued under the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023.

Mr Jorge, an accounts worker who represented himself before the employment tribunal, explained that he had turned down a job offer and agreed to stay on with Centric in August 2022, when he was offered a fully remote contract starting from the following month.

On January 11, 2024, following a conversation the previous month, a Centric HR officer wrote to Mr Jorge to tell him he was “required to attend” its offices at the Dundrum Town Centre “a minimum of two days per week”, the tribunal noted.

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