Labour Court upholds ruling that Metropolitan Film Productions was not Nigel Murphy’s employer

The Labour Court has upheld a decision dismissing Nigel Murphy’s appeal under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. The decision was dated 23 November 2023. Murphy argued that Metropolitan Film Productions Limited was his employer because it was associated with companies that issued his fixed-term contracts. The company said it had never employed him and that his contracts were with separate designated activity companies. The Court found no contract before it named Metropolitan Film Productions as Murphy’s employer, and that association with the other companies did not make it his employer. It therefore did not consider the alleged breaches of the Act or the time-limit argument.