Employment Law Seminars - All Events

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Marian Jennings, Faculty of Business, DIT

Review of the Year: Top employment lawyer, Jennifer Cashman reviews some of the most importanct changes in employment law in 30 years. These include:

• The single Court/Tribunal for Employment Rights
• Croke Park Agreement, JLCs, EROs smf other collective developments
• Important Case Law
• EU Directives

Jennifer Cashman, Senior Partner, Ronan Daly Jermyn, Cork

Decreasing the risk of employee litigation by increasing employee engagement: Hear from a top HR practitioner how your organisation can improve relationships between management and staff producing much better employee engagement whilst reducing the risk of litigation.

Caroline Browne, Managing Director, HRP Group

Social Media - Containing the Social Media Beast Within: Use of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Blogspot is now widespread and can provide considerable commercial advantage: unregulated, it can damage workplace relations, personal and business reputations and lead to all sorts of litigation. This session includes:

• How to protect your organisation through the effective use of handbooks, policies and contractual terms
• What to do if no policy or contractual term exists and there is perceived misuse by an employee
• How to conduct a lawful investigation into possible social media abuse
• Recent case law in this area
• Template policies and contractual terms

Anna Broderick, Eversheds

Courageous Conversations: The dos and don’ts During tough times, emotions run high.  People often feel unsettled, vulnerable and de-motivated and their performance can be affected.  Yet, maintaining high performance is essential in tough times.  This session is about how you can have the courageous conversations necessary to maintain and enhance performance while recognising the insecurities that people may be experiencing.

Oliver Johnston, Penna

Session 3

11.30

Model Policies Make Model Employees? Perhaps not, but effective policies help you manage and substantially reduce the risk of litigation. We  take you through sample policies on:

• Surveillance at work
• Employee searches
• Return to work
• Intellectual property rights

Melanie Crowley, Mason + Hayes Curran

The New Employment Tribunal?Five into One will go! This session will examine the very latest developments concerning the Government proposal to merge the main employment courts/tribunals into one body.

Caroline Browne, Managing Director, HRP Group

Irish Case Law Update: From the Supreme Court to the Labour Court and in between, we highlight the important Irish cases that matter to every employer, analysed for their significance to employers and practitioners in Ireland.  These cases include:

• Lynch v Binnacle Limited (Safe Working Practices)
• Sweeney v BoM of Ballinteer CS (Bullying, Harassment and Stress)
• HSE V Ali Umar (Fixed Term Contracts)
• John Grace Fried Chicken Ltd v Catering JLC (JLCs and EROs)
• Also – Important Irish cases on the horizon.

Eilis Barry BL

Getting the Most from Workplace Mediation In Today’s Litigious Labour Market:

One of Ireland’s leading workplace mediators explains how your organisation can benefit most from workplace mediation and maximise its return.

Gerry Rooney, Baker Tilly Ryan Glennon

Sickness and Absence: When budgets are tight and workforces stretched, the last thing you need is employees going sick. Expert advice includes how to:

• Minimise costs
• Deal with employees who claim sickness to avoid discipline
• Tackle the serial short-term absentee
• Terminate long term absentee contracts

Ger Connolly, MOP

Potential – What Is It And How Do You Measure It?

This session examines the five characteristics of “potential” in employees. It explains how these can be shaped for your particular organization helping you to choose the right assessment tools when attempting to determine a candidate’s potential.

Mark O’Donnell, Deloitte

Career Transformation – How to Create and Embrace Opportunity in your Career:         

Sophie Rowan, coaching psychologist and author of ‘Brilliant Career Coach – how to Find and Follow your Dream Career’ will deliver a practical and interactive session on career transformation and how to achieve it.  Includes the opportunity to work through Brilliant Career Coach’s Career Transformation Formula.

Sophie Rowan, Pinpoint

The Never-ending to-do List – How to get more out of your working day: International research shows that most people work at between 30 and 40% productivity – meaning that long hours are worked just to get the basic job done.  This session looks at the two key hours at work and what you can do with them in order to get more done in less time.

Julia Rowan, Performance Matters

Communication and Restructuring: Have you been through or are you considering a workplace restructuring exercise? Our communications expert has handled many restructuring exercises and disputes and advises on:

• A practical template communications action plan
• How to make your announcements - What to say, where to say it and how you say it,
• How to keep your customers and suppliers onboard

Emmet Barrett, Partner, Keating and Associates

Steps to Become an Employer of Choice to Attract Top Talent:

With the "War for Talent" becoming a reality for many organisations in Ireland, due to the current skills shortages across many key areas, what more can your organisation do to ensure they are attracting and retaining the top talent in the market?

Trayc Keevans, Client Services Manager, Ireland, Morgan McKinley