Annual Review of Employment Law 2023 Online and In Person

Programme

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"Very professional, top expert speakers, forward thinking."
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Presenters

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  Barry Walsh Founder

  focusondiversity.ie

  Barry spent much of his early career in the start-up, advertising, charity and recruitment sectors. In 2016 he began working for ThinkBusiness.ie, which has everything you need to start, run or grow a business in Ireland and he has been freelancing for them ever since. He specialises in doing interviews on businesses in the Diversity and Inclusion field in Ireland.

  In 2019 he joined Dell Technologies Diversity and Inclusion team to help them roll out their Neurodiversity Awareness Training. Before becoming a job coach for autistic people for 2 years. In 2021 Barry became the founder of focusondiversity.ie. The website amplifies diverse voices that are actively promoting Diversity and Inclusion. Barry creates interviews, articles and personal tips on people, companies or programs that are making Ireland a more diverse place.

  Barry is driven to continue to promote Diversity and Inclusion within Ireland and abroad, to make Ireland a more equitable place for everyone.

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  Bláthnaid Evans Partner & Head of Employment Practice

  Ogier

  Bláthnaid has extensive experience in all areas of employment law, having trained in one of the leading trade union / employee firms and subsequently working in a top 5 law firm.

  She advises on all contentious and non-contentious issues, with substantial experience in advising clients before all employment law forums including the WRC, Labour Court and High Court for employment-related injunctions.

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  Breda O'Malley Partner, Employment and Commercial Law Departments

  Hayes Solicitors

  Breda practises in Employment law and leads the Employment Law team at Hayes solicitors. She advises both employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship. Breda adopts a commercially pragmatic approach to dispute issues, avoiding litigation for her clients, where appropriate, and using her skills as an accredited commercial mediator.

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  Caroline Reidy Managing Director

  The HR Suite

  Caroline Reidy runs The HR Suite who offer specialist tailored and effective human resources, employment law and business solutions to over 500 clients throughout Ireland. Many of which are SME’s who have no HR function and the HR Suite are their HR partner to advise them in this area.  The HR Suite also assist with complex investigations, training all areas of people management and skills development and representation at third party forums.  The HR Suite has offices in Dublin and Kerry.

  Caroline is a past Commissioner on the Low Pay Commission and is also an adjudicator in the Work Place Commission.  Caroline has completed a Masters in Human Resources in the University of Limerick and is a trained mediator. She is also the author of ‘The Art of Asking the Right Questions” that provides top tips to people managers throughout the employment journey. To mark 10 years in business in 2019 Caroline launched a children’s book ‘Celebrating You’ to advocate diversity and the importance of celebrating individuality in children. Caroline also contributes as a thought leader to national media, conference speaker and articles in national press. 

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  Deiric McCann Managing Director

  Genos International

  Deiric McCann leads Genos International Europe – the EU division of a world-leading provider of emotional intelligence solutions.

  He has 20+ years of experience at the highest levels of management in multinational organisations, and a further decade of experience working with multinational clients worldwide, helping them to develop the resilience, emotional intelligence, psychological safety and engagement of their teams.

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  Denise Moran Senior Associate

  Matheson

  Denise Moran is Senior Associate at Matheson.

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  Duncan Inverarity Partner, Head of Employment Law Practice Group

  A&L Goodbody

  Duncan is Head of A&L Goodbody's Employment Law Group and has practiced exclusively in the area of employment law and industrial relations in multiple jurisdictions. Duncan advises public and private sector employers on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He advises Boardrooms across Ireland and abroad on strategic and complex employment and industrial relations matters. Duncan also specialises in crisis management for clients and has advised on some of the most high profile corporate issues in Ireland. Duncan regularly appears for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Duncan also acts for partnerships in mediated settlements and in proceedings in the High Court.

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  Dr Gerry McMahon Managing Director

  Productive Personnel Ltd

  Gerry McMahon is acknowledged as a national expert in the area of People Management and Employee Relations.  He has over 40 years’ practical experience working as an advisor/consultant in the area, across a range of sectors.  He also has extensive experience working as a consultant, trainer, facilitator, team builder, negotiator, adjudicator, mediator, coach, investigator, researcher, arbitrator and expert witness on behalf of a wide range of Government departments, public sector enterprises, semi-state entities, blue chip companies, professional institutes, trade unions, staff associations, employer and community/voluntary and religious organisations.

   

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  Ingrid Miley BL Barrister

  Ingrid Miley BL spent most of her career employed as a journalist for RTÉ, the public service broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. From 2002 until her retirement in 2021, she held the specialist position of Industry and Employment Correspondent for RTÉ News. In this capacity, she covered issues related to employment and the economy ranging from public service pay negotiations, strikes, redundancies, interaction with social welfare issues, and the implications of the recent shift to remote working during the pandemic. She delivered coverage across multiple media strands, including television and radio news, the RTÉ website and social media.

  Since her retirement from RTÉ, Ms. Miley has been practicing as a barrister with a specialist interest in employment law.

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  Jennifer Cashman Partner, Head of Employment

  RDJ LLP

  Jennifer is Head of Employment and is also a member of the firm’s Healthcare and Cyber and Data Protection Teams. She is nationally regarded for her encyclopaedic knowledge of employment law and is the “go-to” advisor for corporate clients in both the public and private sector.

  Jennifer's key clients include scaling and established Irish companies in a variety of sectors, multinational companies in the technology, pharmaceutical, medical devices and diagnostics sectors and public authorities. Her focus is on working closely with her clients to provide commercial legal advice and practical, commercial solutions for their business.

  Strengthening the Team’s focus in the medical-technical sector, Jennifer is a member of RDJ’s Healthcare Team, acting for clients including pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, numerous medical device companies, and nursing homes. Advice includes regulatory and employment healthcare-specific issues, in respect of which Jennifer represents her clients before the Courts and the WRC/Labour Court.

  Jennifer is regularly invited to contribute as a key-note speaker at employment law and HR conferences, events and webinars for CIPD, and Legal-Island. She is a recognised thought-leader on various employment law and HR issues, in particular in the areas of retirement ages and age discrimination.

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  Linda Hynes Partner

  Lewis Silkin

  Linda is a Partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward division based in Lewis Silkin's Dublin office. She is qualified to practice in Ireland, England & Wales. Linda is also the current chair of the Employment Law Association of Ireland and has an in-house employment counsel background. 

  Linda advises on all aspects of the employment law relationship from recruitment to termination and everything in between. Linda also advises multinationals and employers on changes to terms and conditions, unfair dismissals, payment of wages claims, restructuring and transfer of undertakings. Linda is also a workplace data protection expert and advises employers on all aspect of processing employee personal data to include advice on subject access requests, employee monitoring, privacy notices, retention and data protection complaints. 

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  Lorcan Keenan Partner & Head of Pensions

  Matheson

  Lorcan Keenan is a Partner and Head of Pensions at Matheson.  He advises on the establishment and ongoing operation of all types of Irish pension arrangements, including defined benefit schemes, defined contribution schemes and master trusts. His clients include a broad mix of employers across various industries, pension scheme trustees, and pension service providers. He has particular expertise advising on the pensions implications of corporate transactions, group restructurings and TUPE transfers.  His recent experience includes advising employers on the transition of their pension schemes to master trust, and on new governance requirements introduced by the IORP II Directive.  Lorcan previously worked as a pensions lawyer in the UK, where he advised clients on the introduction of the UK's automatic enrolment pensions regime in 2012.

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  Marian Jennings Specialist in Employment & Business Law

  TU Dublin

  Marian is an experienced Law Lecturer, with a specialist offering developed over 20 years, in Employment and Business Law. She offers the combined value of a proven track record in academia together with professional private practice/in-house legal roles and significant board, governance and organisational management experience in the community and voluntary sector.  

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  Maura Connolly Partner

  Addleshaw Goddard

  Maura is head of the Dispute Resolution Department in Addleshaw Goddard's Dublin office, she also leads the Employment & Employee Benefits Law Group.  Maura advises employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including contentious and non-contentious matters. Maura is experienced in civil litigation and has represented clients in employment law tribunals, before industrial relations bodies and in the Courts. Recent experience has included advising an employer on a high profile executive termination, which included wide ranging disputes relating to the executive’s directorship, shareholder and financial interests in the group; advising a registered charity on an investigation arising from a protected disclosure; providing strategic advice to an advertising company on the loss of a major contract and the transfer of its workforce under transfer of undertakings regulations.

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  Michelle Halloran Trainer

  MH Human Resource Management Services Solutions

  Michelle Halloran is an experienced Human Resource Management professional and an accredited workplace mediator providing training and consultancy services to organisations nationwide, in the Public and Private sector. She has spent a long career originally in executive and general management roles, then specialising in Human Resources management in Ireland, the UK and Europe, across various sectors including investment banking, information technology, manufacturing and services plus some time in the public sector, before starting her own HR consultancy business 17 years ago. Her key areas of expertise are in workplace investigations, disciplinary and performance management and employee relations, and the practical application of employment law in a HR context.

   

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  Sara R Phillips Co-chair

  International Trans Fund & Transgender Europe

  Sara R Phillips is a Trans activist working globally. She has been involved with trans activism for over 30 years.  Sara is a board member of the National Women's Council of Ireland, She is the Co-Chair of the International Trans Fund in Toronto and Co-Chair of Transgender Europe in Berlin.She is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of Ireland's national trans organisation, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), serving 10 years in that position.Sara was one of the lead negotiators to the Gender Recognition Act 2015 and served on the Governmental review of the act in 2018.  Sara was honoured as Dublin LGBTQ Pride Grand Marshall in 2018. She is the founder, researcher and archivist of the Irish Trans Archive. Sara is currently the National Manager in Ireland for multinational construction materials manufacturer CPG-Europe.