Thursday, 06 November 2025
11:00 - 11:45
(
45 mins )
Online
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 and Laura McKee, Knowledge Partner, Legal Island for a lively, plain-speaking session that cuts through the confusion. Together they’ll help you:
Expect practical examples, expert insights, and a few light-bulb moments along the way.
We’ll wrap up with time for your toughest questions, or you can send them in anonymously in advance if you prefer to gosia@legal-island.com
It’s 45 minutes that could save you hours of head-scratching this winter.
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
www.ey.com
Laura joined Legal Island as a Knowledge Partner in January 2023. Prior to that she worked as an employment law and dispute resolution solicitor with Eugene F. Collins (now Addleshaw Goddard LLP), A&L Goodbody Dublin & Belfast and as an In-House Employment Counsel Secondee at Google.
Laura is also a qualified personal and executive coach, yoga and mindfulness teacher.
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