Managing Sickness Absence in Ireland
Wednesday, 01 October 2025
09:15 - 16:00 ( 6 hours 45 mins )
Online
Managing Sickness Absence in Ireland: Legal Clarity, Practical Strategies, Better Outcomes
Managing sickness absence
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1st October -
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€445.00 Early bird ends 20th August 2025 at 5:00pm. Standard rate: €495.00 Charity and Small Business rate also available
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Master Sickness Absence Management: Strategies to Reduce Absenteeism and Strengthen Compliance

Join us at our upcoming event in association with Addleshaw Goddard LLP, focused on managing sickness absence. This event provides a valuable opportunity to gain insights, practical strategies, and up-to-date guidance from industry experts who will offer actionable strategies that you can implement immediately within your organisation.

After attending this event, you will:  

  • Be informed about sick leave policies and legislation specific to Irish employers. Our event will provide you with the most up-to-date information on legal requirements and guidelines.
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of your obligations as an employer, allowing you to minimise risks associated with sickness absence management.
  • Understand how efficient sickness absence management directly impacts your organisation's bottom line. By attending our event, you'll gain the knowledge and tools necessary to optimise productivity, reduce absenteeism, and drive better performance. We’ll help you use occupational health effectively and implement your organisation’s capability procedures successfully.

Who is this event for

This event is designed for employers, HR professionals and those with line-management responsibilities.



Why should you attend

This event will help attendees:

  • Ensure compliance and mitigate risks with the most up-to-date, Ireland specific information on legal requirements and guidelines.
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of your obligations as an employer in Ireland.
  • Acquire the knowledge and tools necessary to optimise productivity, reduce absenteeism, and drive better performance.
Presenters
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Alison Devine Associate, Addleshaw Goddard
Alison Devine Associate, Addleshaw Goddard
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Alison is an Associate in Dispute Resolution and is part of the Employment team. She advises employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship, both contentious and non-contentious. Alison represents clients before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts in employment litigation such as injunctive proceedings, unfair dismissal, equality and discrimination, occupational stress, and health and safety. She also advises on areas such as statutory entitlements, long term sick leave, disciplinary and grievance procedures, investigations and redundancies and conducts contractual and policy reviews.

Robert Dooney Legal Director, Addleshaw Goddard
Robert Dooney Legal Director, Addleshaw Goddard
Robert Dooney

Robert is a Legal Director and is a senior member of the AG employment law team and part of the wider Disputes Group

Robert has advised a wide range of domestic and international clients in disputes relating to banking and financial services, property and construction, personal injury, medical and professional negligence, commercial contracts, IP infringement, defamation, product liability and sale of goods claims.

He has extensive experience advising and representing employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship, including contentious and non-contentious matters. He represents clients before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court and the civil courts in employment litigation such as unfair dismissal, transfer of undertakings, equality/discrimination, occupational stress, and health & safety.

He regularly provides lectures to students of the Law Society’s Employment Diploma Centre, and he often delivers talks at various events to other practitioners, colleagues, and clients on various aspects of employment law. 

Kate Field Legal Director, Addleshaw Goddard
Kate Field Legal Director, Addleshaw Goddard
Kate Field

Kate is a Legal Director and is a senior member of the AG employment law team and part of the wider Disputes Group.  Kate has extensive experience advising employers on all aspects of the employment relationship. This includes both non-contentious and contentious matters.


Kate predominantly advises commercial clients, mainly international organisations, on a full range of employment law issues including workplace investigations, capability issues, unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, senior executive exits, business reorganisation involving redundancy and collective redundancy processes.


Kate has a particular interest in workplace investigations and specifically in advising clients on complex workplace investigations including investigations involving protected disclosures. Kate regularly speaks on employment law topics at firm events and external training events. 

Edel Flynn Managing Associate, Addleshaw Goddard
Edel Flynn Managing Associate, Addleshaw Goddard
Edel Flynn

Edel has 10 years’ experience advising employers on all aspects of the employment relationship and with respect to equality law, in contentious and non-contentious matters. She handles a multitude of complex and commercially sensitive matters for both international and domestic employers across a variety of sectors. Edel provides practical and commercially focused employment law advice to HR managers and in house counsel to help them navigate through commercially sensitive employment law matters. Edel has been recommended as a “Key Lawyer” by the Legal 500. 

Edel has significant experience advising on employment issues arising from internal investigations and processes, whistleblowing allegations, capability, sickness absence, unfair dismissal claims, corporate restructurings and redundancies. Edel has successfully represented employers before the civil courts and the Workplace Relations Commission and also negotiated a number of high profile exits of senior employees. Edel regularly gives employment law presentations at events and training to clients.

Philip Gray Associate in Disputes Group, Addleshaw Goddard
Philip Gray Associate in Disputes Group, Addleshaw Goddard
Philip Gray

Philip is an Associate in the Disputes Group at Addleshaw Goddard (Ireland) LLP and is part of the Employment Group. He primarily advises employers on all aspects of the employment relationship, both contentious and non-contentious. Philip has a particular focus on advising corporate clients on both the buy and sale side on the employment aspects of corporate transactions, including share and asset sales. Philip also works closely with our Insolvency and Restructuring Group in advising insolvency practitioners on the employment considerations in corporate restructurings including liquidations, examinerships and receiverships. Philip has extensive experience advising clients on best practice contractual and policy reviews, as well as regularly advising clients on redundancy, grievance and disciplinary processes. The Employment Group have also been involved in a number of cases involving employment status, protected disclosures and extensive workplace investigations. 

Rachel Kennedy Associate in the Employment Team in Addleshaw Goddard
Rachel Kennedy Associate in the Employment Team in Addleshaw Goddard
Rachel Kennedy

Rachel is an Associate in the Employment Team in Addleshaw Goddard. She advises in relation to all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment and equality law. Rachel reviews contracts of employment, severance agreements, staff handbooks and various policy documents for clients on a regular basis. She also advises clients on disciplinary and grievance procedures, protected disclosure investigations, workplace investigations, working time issues, redundancy processes, long term sick leave and statutory leave entitlements.

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