Is this Goodbye for DE&I?
Published on: 05/02/2025
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Aoife Gallagher-Watson Director, Employment Law, EY Law Ireland
Aoife Gallagher-Watson Director, Employment Law, EY Law Ireland
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Aoife Gallagher-Watson is director in employment law at EY Law Ireland.
A specialist in the areas of employment and work health and safety law, Aoife has over 15 years’ experience working in-house and with top-tier law employment teams in Ireland and overseas.
She has worked with a range of clients across regulated and unregulated industries, advising on contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
Aoife also has extensive experience in advising and representing companies and senior executives in connection with work health and safety obligations, regulatory investigations and prosecutions.

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The beginning of this year saw a flurry of headlines announcing the end of workplace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DE&I”) programmes across a range of big-name multinationals in the U.S. (some of whom were once the front runners leading the way in the DE&I space). Below, Aoife Gallagher-Watson, Director with EY Law Ireland discusses the changes taking place in the U.S., the potential impact for Irish businesses and some of the key risks and consequences organisations can face when introducing major changes to company policies and programmes.

What’s in a name?

Although a variety of labels and acronyms exist, the term “DE&I” is typically used to describe practices that are designed to correct inequities within an organisation, government body, school/college

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