Flynn O’Driscoll has extensive experience in advising on all facets of the employment relationship from managing challenging interpersonal issues to dismissals and redundancies and acquisitions. We offer strategic, commercial and supportive advice on a wide range of employment, equality and industrial relations matters. Our clients include many leading multinational and Irish companies, investment funds and public sector organisations.
Experience
Our team prides itself in working closely with our clients to provide commercial, timely and supportive responses to contentious and non-contentious employment related matters.
Some of the key areas we advise on include:
- Managing the breakdown of the employment relationship to include investigations, disciplinary and grievance processes, severance agreements and appeals
- Representing clients in all employment fora to include the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and the Superior courts
- Complex employment related litigation to include injunctions, breach of contract claims and enforcing post termination restrictions
- Shareholder disputes
- Bullying and Harassment, Dignity at Work and Stress
- Performance Management
- Whistleblowing and protected disclosures
- Unfair Dismissals and Equality matters
- Gender Pay Gap Reporting
- Guiding employers through the redundancy process to include collective redundancies and consultations
- Discrimination and Equality Issues
- Employment aspects of corporate and commercial transactions
- Advising on employment status to include that of independent contractors and drafting consultancy Agreements
- Outsourcing and Atypical Workers
- Advising employers in regulated industries such as insurance
- Corporate immigration and mobility
- HR policies, procedures, contracts and bonus schemes
Recent
Given the sensitive and confidential nature of employment disputes we cannot name specific clients. Examples of recent experience includes:
- Advising on the successful appeal of a decision of the Department of Social Welfare that an independent contract was an employee
- Representing Naturgy Aprovisionamientos S.A. in the proposed sale of certain group companies registered in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales
