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.
Probationary employee granted injunction where dismissal appeared linked to misconduct allegations, requiring adherence to fair procedures despite probation.
The plaintiff sought numerous interlocutory orders preventing her employer from terminating her employment, replacing her in the workplace and terminating her employment contracts.
The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a supervisor, and was promised that subject to performance, she would be promoted to store manager within a month. She was acting as manager from the commencement of her employment. Towards the end of her first month as employee, another employee made several allegations against her centring on "the plaintiff's management duties and interpersonal relationship with her at work."
The plaintiff was informed that an external HR firm
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