Duncan Inverarity is a former a partner and Head of A&L Goodbody's Employment Law group and practiced exclusively in the area of employment law and industrial relations in multiple jurisdictions. Duncan advised public and private sector employers on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He advised Board rooms across Ireland and abroad on strategic and complex employment and industrial relations matters. Duncan also specialised in crisis management for clients and advised on some of the most high profile corporate issues in Ireland. Duncan regularly appeared for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Duncan also acted for partnerships in mediated settlements and in proceedings in the High Court.
Duncan now works as an Employment Mediator (CEDR Accredited) and Investigator.
The WRC accepted that while the employer had not advised the employee to seek legal advice before signing the compromise agreement, the employee signed the agreement which stated that he had been given the opportunity to take legal advice before signing the agreement.
This WRC case involved a claim by a former Ulster Bank manager that he was made redundant for making a protected disclosure. He had accepted an enhanced redundancy package worth over €145,000. Mr. Brendan Flanagan’s employment as an operation manager with the bank was terminated by reason of redundancy on 31 January 2024. He contended that his dismissal was not as a result of a genuine redundancy and was in fact the consequence of him
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