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.
The Workplace Relations Commission has made public an initial tranche of decisions awarding €434,216 to some members of the Irish Film Workers' Association (IFWA) who complained of systematic employment law breaches.
Nearly 40 members of the breakaway trade union accused the producers and their associated entities of breaching the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003 by failing to honour their statutory right to a permanent contract after four years’ service and of penalising them for challenging the situation. The union said its campaigning against "systematic blacklisting" in the Irish film industry led to the people losing jobs they had held for decades in companies controlled by Morgan O'Sullivan and the late James Flynn.
The workers registered complaints
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