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.
What happened?
Twitter was ordered to pay €550,000 compensation to a former senior executive in its Irish-based operations in what is a record award by the WRC in an unfair dismissal case. Twitter contended that the employee had resigned following his failure to click yes on a link requiring him to agree to new unspecified pay and conditions within a one-day deadline. The link was contained in an email (referred to as the “Fork in the Road” email) sent from the company’s new owner Elon Musk which stated: “Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at
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