Immigration Law Updates in Ireland
Recently, Ireland's immigration law has seen significant changes, with notable advancements and a keen interest from many employers in this aspect of employment law. However, with factors like critical skills, salary criteria, eligibility, naturalization, regulations, and procedures to consider, HR teams and organizations have a lot to understand and adapt to. Knowing the process and managing your work flow when employing non-EU nationals is crucial.
Employment permit is mandatory for non-EEA national in order to work in Ireland. There are 9 different types depending on jobs and applications are managed by Department of Enterprise here. Separately employees might be Visa required. There is an updated list of nationals that are visa required here and additional information here.
What employers should consider when employing non-EU nationals? Which nationality they are? Are they on the list for visa requirement ? Are they on the list for employment permit? What is the nature of their work?
What that means, if they are on ineligible list, or general employment permit or critical skills employment permit. Permissions comes with different conditions.
Therefore, as this said above, it is crucial that employers have well designed processes within systems they use, that will help employees ( HR and Recruiting team) to stay up to date easily and monitor all necessary visa requirements in timely manner. What I mean by that is having well design knowledge base makes people’s life easier and enables them to concentrate and make less mistakes when it comes to law requirements.
Due to recent advancements in AI, employers can now invest in technologies that keep their employees updated and informed. As a People Director, to streamline processes and ensure your team is current, you should consider implementing these new technologies. This will be truly a boost when we talk about productivity and profit as now we can enable younger talents, cheaper workforce to work on some thing that previous we have required specialist with 7 years of experience in that job. Integrating AI into the systems, platforms, intranets, will enable shareholders to boost their ROI faster, only if they invest in AI and experts who are able to create solid data knowledge base.
Also, in todays fast paced environment, we need our People Specialist to spend more time on decision making when it comes to exceptional cases, therefore they simply can’t spend their days trying to catch up with all new updates. Simple solution for this lies in the power of AI. Also, when we talk about investing in people, we have to enable them time to think, breathe, be creative, and to do so we are boosting productivity and at the end ROI.
Please feel free to connect with me if you need help setting up these processes in the system that you have, or if you are willing to try better software solutions connect with me. Also, I can help you integrate AI into your current systems.
I hope this helps.
