The team is known for advising on the full range of legal issues that may arise during the employment relationship. The group has a strong reputation for resolving employment issues for corporate clients and public sector bodies and, where necessary, successfully defending their interests before the courts and Workplace Relations Commission.
We are commercially focused and accessible – believing we should always be at the other end of the phone.
Our employment & benefits team was named Employment Law Team of the Year 2017 at the annual AIB Private Banking Irish Law Awards, which recognise excellence in the legal profession in Ireland.
Benefit from our employment law compliance review
Navigating employment law compliance has become increasingly complex with the considerable amount of employment legislation in place in Ireland and recent decisions of the High Court in relation to employees rights to due process and fair procedures. For organisations this poses a range of challenges.
Our compliance review service reduces legal risk and improves the efficient management of the employment relationship.
Our services
- Employment contracts, policies & procedures
- Employment audits and compliance
- Recruitment
- Establishing in Ireland
- Immigration & work permits
- Restrictive covenants
- Injunctions
- Protected disclosures/whistleblowing
- Atypical workers
- Employment claims/disputes
- Training
- Health & safety
- Bullying & harassment
- Performance management
- Data protection
- Termination of employment contracts
- Employee redundancy
- Industrial relations
- Employment issues in mergers and acquisitions and commercial agreements
- TUPE
- Share incentive schemes for key employees and executives
- Bonus schemes
- Pensions
- Dispute resolution
- Change management
Experience
BNP Paribas
On a wide range of employment matters including on its employment contracts, HR policies, day to day employment issues and TUPE issues relating to business acquisitions
Ergo
On all its employment law requirements including on employment best practice, equality issues at recruitment stage, compliance issues that arise on a day to day basis and HR due diligence in relation to recent acquisitions
Leinster Rugby
On its day-to-day employment matters
Cartamundi
On the employment aspects of its acquisition of an Irish manufacturing business from Hasbro
A number of Institutes of Technology
On all employment law issues including fixed term contracts, protected disclosures, grievance and disciplinary issues
A number of senior executives
In relation to exit negotiations and severance payments
A large corporate client
In High Court proceedings against an employee to protect confidential and commercially sensitive information
Pobal
On a nationwide restructuring and integration process which concerned the transfer of projects funded by Pobal from Community Development Projects (CDPs) to Local Development Companies. The legal advice was provided to over 60 individual CDPs and included advice on the application of the Transfer of Undertaking Regulations