Gerry McMahon is an acknowledged national expert in People Management. He has over 35 years’ experience - as a workplace investigator (on bullying/harassment/ disciplinary/dismissal/grievance issues), trainer, negotiator, facilitator, mediator, arbitrator and team builder - across a wide range of employment sectors. He is the M.D. of the H.R. training and advisory company Productive Personnel Ltd.
Gerry has also had an extensive range of books and articles published and been a columnist with the Industrial Relations News, Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, and Irish Independent and expert commentator on H.R./Employee Relations for R.T.E. and TV3/Virgin. He has also served on numerous Legal Island and C.I.P.D. judging panels and is a Council member of the Irish Association for Industrial Relations.
Contact: Tel. 087-2471415; E-Mail: ppl1gerry@gmail.com
Suspensions at work have long been a source of contention, often finding their way to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the Labour Court and eventually to the superior courts. Indeed, the topic recently returned to the headlines, when both of the representative bodies for the majority of the State’s serving Gardai demanded a review of their organisation’s practices in this area. This demand follows on from a 2025 case where the WRC held – in a determination upheld by the Labour Court - that a Garda had been treated ‘extremely unfairly’ during his two-year suspension, as his employer ignored its own suspension policy whilst also applying it in a way that was deemed to be ‘totally unreasonable’ (ADJ-00052010 & LCR23176).
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