Our award-winning Employment & Benefits Team, advise domestic, international and multinational companies, financial institutions, public sector bodies and charities on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law.
The team has a strong reputation for helping employers resolve employment disputes affecting both the individual and collective body of employees. Our lawyers understand the impact employment issues can have in the workplace and constantly deliver strategic advice to boards, authorities, regulators, senior management and HR teams for the swift and cost-effective resolution of such matters.
Strategic advice often includes representing our clients during alternative dispute resolution scenarios, for example mediation or conciliation, but also robustly protecting their interests before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts including urgent High Court injunctions.
Commercial awareness always plays a key role in our advice to clients, particularly given the extensive experience our employment lawyers have working in commercial transactions, whether carrying out due diligence or guiding constructive solutions to employment related roadblocks that arise for buyers and sellers.
Other cross-department collaboration includes implementing share incentive schemes with our Corporate Team, interpreting public sector employer obligations with our Public Sector Team and supporting our Energy, Property and Housing teams during transaction and advisory work. This approach ensures firm-wide service delivery is the cornerstone of the commitment we make to our clients.
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