Bláthnaid Evans is a partner at Philip Lee LLP. She advises on all contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. She has extensive experience across all areas of employment law, having trained in an employee firm and later worked in a top five law firm.
Her practice includes advising on and preparing employment documentation, from employment contracts and handbooks to outsourcing agreements, employment warranties and indemnities and all other ancillary employment related documentation. She regularly advises on employment aspects of commercial transactions, including TUPE and outsourcing arrangements.
Bláthnaid also advises employers on disputes, including grievances, investigations, disciplinary processes, harassment / sexual harassment and protected disclosures. She also regularly attends before all employment law forums, advising clients in employment related disputes.
She also provides advice on health and safety matters, workplace investigations and employment permit applications.
Most of us will have noticed an increase in the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) in numerous (if not all) areas of our lives, and it’s no different when it comes to the workplace.
While employees are availing of AI in order to improve efficiency when carrying out their duties of employment, they are also using AI to assist in dealing with issues that arise in relation to their employment – in particular, we are seeing an increase in the number of AI generated grievances that employers are receiving.
This represents a difficulty for employers: AI generated grievances tend to be substantially longer and more complicated than grievances that are prepared in a traditional manner.
This is because, in using
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