Jennifer O’Neill is a Consultant in the Byrne Wallace Shields LLP Employment Law Team.
Jennifer is an experienced employment law practitioner with considerable expertise advising clients on general employment law compliance issues. Jennifer provides both domestic and international clients with ongoing employment law support to include drafting and reviewing contracts and policies, advising on arrangements with independent contractors, advising on working time, leave arrangements, terminations, disciplinary and grievance procedures, compromise agreements and redundancies.
In particular, Jennifer’s experience includes advising and assisting with employment issues arising on the acquisition or sale of a business or corporate entity. This includes conducting due diligence reviews and risk analysis exercises and negotiating warranty and indemnity protection in asset and share purchase agreements. Jennifer regularly advises clients on the implications of the transfer of undertakings regulations, whether on the outsourcing of services or the lease or sale of a business and assists employers with the related consultation and employee benefit issues.
The European Union (Posting of Workers) Regulations 2016 (SI 412 of 2016) (the “2016 Regulations”) were signed on 27 July 2016 and transposed Directive 2014/67 (“the Posted Workers Enforcement Directive”) into Irish law.
The term “posted worker” is defined in the 2016 Regulations as “a worker who normally works in another Member State but, for a limited period, carries out his/her work in the State”.
The aim of the original Posted Workers Directive 96/71/EC, which was transposed into Irish law under Section 20 of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act 2001, was to protect the basic employment rights of workers posted by their employer from one member state to another. Due to concerns relating to
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