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.
EY Law Ireland
Tel: 01-4750555
Email: Aoife.Gallagher-Watson@ie.ey.com
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Caroline is a seasoned Human Resources and Coaching professional with over 20 years of experience spanning talent management, employee relations, and organisational development and design across multiple industries such as Telecoms/BPO, Med-Tech and Fin-Tech.
Her career has been defined by a deep commitment to empowering individuals and teams to thrive in dynamic workplace environments. Building on her extensive HR background and academic studies in HR, Employment Law, Mediation and Executive Coaching, Caroline is a qualified personal and management coach, specialising in organisational development and change management.
Caroline partners with organisations to deliver targeted training programs for frontline managers. Her workshops focus on critical areas such as employee attraction, development, and engagement — equipping leaders with the tools to build high-performing, people-centred teams.
Caroline brings a unique blend of strategic insight, emotional intelligence, and practical experience to every engagement. Her approach is grounded in empathy, clarity, and a genuine passion for helping others grow. Caroline creates and safe and non-judgmental space which helps others see their true potential which allows them to take action steps towards achieving success in their goals. Caroline is delighted to support this webinar and looks forward to sharing her hands on experience in dealing with family leave from a HR practitioner's perspective.
Winter is coming and so are the coughs, colds and caring emergencies. As HR professionals know all too well, this is the season when requests for time off multiply: “My child’s sick again”, “Mum’s had a fall”, “I need time for a doctor’s appointment”.
But which type of leave actually applies? Force majeure? Compassionate? Parental? Carer’s? It can feel like an alphabet soup of entitlements and one wrong move can leave an employer exposed.
Join Aoife Gallagher-Watson, Director, Employment Law, EY Law Ireland, Caroline Kelly, Personal and Executive Coach, TalentPro, and Laura McKee, Knowledge Partner, Legal Island for a lively, plain-speaking session that cuts through the confusion. Together they’ll help you:
1. Decode the differences between force majeure, compassionate and carer’s leave
2. Clarify employee rights on parental, parent’s, maternity, paternity and antenatal leave
3. Handle those tricky “life happens” conversations with confidence and fairness
Expect practical examples, expert insights, and a few light-bulb moments along the way.
It’s 45 minutes that could save you hours of head-scratching this winter.
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