Wednesday, 04 June 2025
09:15 - 13:00 (3 hrs)
Online
The Essentials of Employment Law online course is specifically designed to give attendees a thorough grounding in the main components of Irish employment law. With so many changes taking place in today’s workplaces, including blended working, an understanding of core employment laws is now more important than ever before.
This is an interactive 2 x half-day course, delivered by a team of highly experienced employment law experts. The sessions will be supported by a comprehensive pack of notes on Irish employment law as well as a number of practical exercises throughout the sessions to help enforce learning. The online sessions will also be complemented with access to a number of additional e-learning programmes aimed to help supplement attendees’ understanding of Employment Laws in Ireland.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of this course, attendees will:
What will be covered?
Additional learning aids:
In addition to attending the live sessions with our experts, attendees will have exclusive access to the following e-learning programmes to complete in their own time:
Anyone with a need to know the main building blocks of Irish employment law including HR Managers, Supervisors, line managers, In-house Lawyers and Legal & HR Advisers. Ideal for those new to employment law or seeking a refresher course.
This training is not suitable for those with extensive knowledge of Irish employment law.
The Essentials of Employment Law online course is specifically designed to give attendees a thorough grounding in the main components of Irish employment law. An understanding of core Irish-specific employment laws is more important than ever before.
Here's what to expect over the 2 half days.
In this session Dr Gerry McMahon, HR Consultant and former Adjudication Officer, outlines the key sources of law that influence the legal relationship between employees and employers. This includes:
In this session Dr Gerry McMahon outlines the role of the WRC in:
We also consider options available to parties that are unhappy with a WRC decision or who prefer to seek redress through other available fora.
Includes Q&A
A contract of employment is made up of both written and implied terms and contracts are influenced by statute, industry and competition for talent. This session by Grace Lee, Lewis Silken Employment Team highlights:
Siobhra Rush, Partner continues with Contracts of Employment highlighting:
Varying a Contact of Employment and Q&A with Siobhra Rush.
In this session, Marian Jennings, Solicitor and Employment Law Lecturer, provides an overview of the scope of the Employment Equality Acts 1998 – 2015 and includes an outline of:
Marian continues in this session to explore the implications of the Employment Equality Acts and includes a brief outline of:
Employing fair procedures in a dismissal situation is essential in demonstrating fairness. This session, delivered by Niamh Crotty, Senior Associate of Lewis Silken Employment Team, outlines what is meant by fair procedures and considers the right to claim unfair dismissal. Topics include:
Wrongful Dismissal (including injunctions)
In this final session, Niamh Crotty will highlight some recent key employment developments and what we expect to see in the next 12-month period which includes:
Here's what our previous attendees had to say.
Marian is an experienced Law Lecturer, with a specialist offering developed over 20 years, in Employment and Business Law. She offers the combined value of a proven track record in academia together with professional private practice/in-house legal roles and significant board, governance and organisational management experience in the community and voluntary sector.
Grace is an Associate on the Employment Team at Lewis Silkin.
Grace supports employers from various sectors on all aspects of employment law. She advises employers on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues. Her expertise includes advising on day-to-day general employment law issues such as redundancy processes, employment contracts, company policies and handbooks, advising on settlement negotiations and disciplinary and grievance procedures.
Grace also assists with claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination, and other employment law claims before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court, the Circuit and High Courts.
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Gerry McMahon is acknowledged as a national expert in the area of People Management and Employee Relations. He has over 40 years’ practical experience working as an advisor/consultant in the area, across a range of sectors. He also has extensive experience working as a consultant, trainer, facilitator, team builder, negotiator, adjudicator, mediator, coach, investigator, researcher, arbitrator and expert witness on behalf of a wide range of Government departments, public sector enterprises, semi-state entities, blue chip companies, professional institutes, trade unions, staff associations, employer and community/voluntary and religious organisations.
Síobhra is a Partner in the Employment, Immigration and Reward department and head of the Dublin office at Lewis Silkin.
She has practised employment law for more than twenty years and has expertise in a wide range of employment law issues, both contentious and non-contentious. She also advises international clients establishing in Ireland – including on contracts of employment, handbooks policies and procedures. She has advised on internal commercial re-organisations, transfer of undertakings, employment issues and the employment provisions in commercial transactions and has represented clients in all adjudicatory bodies in Ireland including the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court, the Circuit and High Courts and the Court of Appeal.
She is consistently ranked in the Chambers Europe legal directory, where she is described by a client as "responsive, proactive and pragmatic, as well as solution-oriented."
Niamh is a senior associate in Lewis Silkin’s Employment, Immigration and Reward division based in Dublin.
Niamh advises on the full range of day to day employment matters, such as contract and policy reviews, providing support with investigations, grievances and disciplinary processes, advising on severance negotiations and other employee relations matters. She also has experience advising on large collective redundancy processes and acting for employers defending employee claims in the WRC and Labour Court. She was previously based in Lewis Silkin’s London office.
She is particularly interested in the future of work and supports Lewis Silkin's innovative Future of Work Hub initiative which aims to support organisations in their horizon-scanning to enable them to see ahead, identify and anticipate future opportunities and challenges and evaluate how best to respond. She is currently a part-time student of Dublin City University's MSc in Work and Organisational Behaviour.
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