Employment Equality Act, 1998

Additional powers of Circuit Court on enforcement.

92.—(1) Where the Circuit Court makes an order under section 91 (1), it may, if in all the circumstances it considers it appropriate to do so, include in the order the additional direction referred to in subsection (2) or, as the case may require, subsection (3).

(2) Where the order under section 91 (1) relates to a determination or decision requiring the payment of compensation to any person, the order may direct the employer or other person concerned to pay interest on the compensation at the rate referred to in section 22 of the Courts Act, 1981 , in respect of the whole or any part of the period ending on the date of the order and beginning—

(a) 42 days after the date of the determination or decision, or

(b) if it is later, on the date on which the compensation was required to be paid under the determination or decision.

(3) Where the order under section 91 (1) relates to a determination requiring an employer to re-instate or re-engage an employee, the order may direct the employer to pay to the employee compensation of such amount as the Circuit Court considers reasonable in respect of the failure of the employer to comply with the determination.