Deirdre leads EY Law Ireland’s employment law team, advising clients on day-to-day employment law queries arising at every stage of the employment relationship. She also advises on strategic workforce planning, workforce restructuring and HR transactions providing straightforward, practical solutions to her clients.
Deirdre is a longstanding member of the Law Society of Ireland’s Employment and Equality Committee. In January 2025, she was appointed to the Employment Law Review Group (ELRG) by the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment to support with the ELRG’s function to monitor, review and advise on all aspects of employment and redundancy law in Ireland, with a specific focus on promoting good workplace relations and simplifying the operation of employment and redundancy law.
Combining employment law expertise with a commercial and solution-driven focus, Deirdre is highly regarded by clients. She is ranked by Chambers and Partners (Europe Edition) and Legal 500 for her work in employment law.
In this month’s EY Law Insight – Deirdre Malone, Partner, and Laura Ryan, Solicitor, in the Employment Team at EY Law, look at the purpose and proposed changes of The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022.
Juggling work and life is probably on top of every working person’s agenda, second only (sometimes) to financial reward. Long before the pandemic upended any prospect of clear lines between work and life, the EU published a Directive on work/life balance.
Ireland had three years to reflect on how best to achieve the initiatives in the Directive, but unfortunately the legislative platform to launch this well-intentioned Directive has not yet been enacted despite passing the August 2022 deadline for implementation.
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