Breda practises in Employment law and leads the Employment Law team at Hayes solicitors. She advises both employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship.
Breda is an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and she is a Council member with the Irish Commercial Mediation Association. A Partner in a large law firm whose client engaged Breda as a mediator has described Breda as ‘sensational’, gave her top marks and highly recommended Breda to his legal team for future mediations.
Breda qualified with the Timoney Leadership Institute in 2018, follow a six month immersion course on ethical leadership in business. This course was presented by visiting Harvard professors who taught through the case study method on ethical dilemmas which business leader face.
Breda adopts a commercially pragmatic approach to dispute issues, avoiding litigation for her clients where appropriate, and using her skills as an accredited commercial mediator.
Breda is a prominent adviser in the area of the Transfer Regulations (TUPE), where she has advised employers outsourcing and changing service providers. Her previous legal practice in commercial law work strongly influences her pragmatic business focused approach to the clients she advises.
Breda acts for a broad spectrum of clients from multinational corporations and large public entities to indigenous Irish businesses, charities and private clients on the employer side. She also acts for C-suite executives in PLCs and multinationals.
Breda is praised by clients for ‘digging deep’ on their behalf, and going the extra mile.
Breda regularly gives workshops and seminars to professional and trade associations and client organisations on employment and commercial law issues.
This concerned whether the post of Cork County Sheriff could be considered an economic entity for the purposes of the Regulations and if so, whether there had been a relevant transfer.
The Tribunal held that the Office of the Sheriff is not precluded from being an economic entity by reason of the office being held by a natural entity. The Tribunal reached this determination by examining the activities carried out by the Office itself and concluding that the enforcement of judgments constitutes an economic activity and that the Sheriff and her staff are an organised grouping of persons and assets which enable this activity.
In terms of whether a relevant transfer had taken place, the Tribunal held that there was a concomitant transfer of assets and the majority of the workers from the Former Sheriff to the new Sheriff. Although there was a new individual running the operation, the economic activity retained its identity in so far as it had the same name, the same work and had taken over a majority of the workforce of the former entity and some of the assets.
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