Siobhán Lafferty is a Senior Associate in the employment law team in Byrne Wallace Shields LLP and has a range of experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She regularly advises both employer and employee clients on issues arising from the beginning to the end of the employment relationship, regularly representing clients before the Workplace Relations Commission and in High Court proceedings.
The EU (Gender Balance on Boards of Certain Companies) Regulations 2025 came into force at the end of May.
The Regulations implement Directive (EU) 2022/2381 into Irish law. The aim of the Directive is to “achieve a more gender-balanced representation among the directors of listed companies”.
Application
The Regulations apply to “relevant listed companies”, which are companies that are subject to the following criteria:
- employ more than 250 persons; and
- have an annual turnover exceeding €50,000,000 or an annual balance sheet total exceeding €43 million; and
- have a registered office in Ireland; and
- have shares traded on a regulated market in an EU Member State.
Micro, small and medium-sized companies (or SMEs) are excluded from the scope of the Regulations,
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