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Employment

Our Employment Group excels in providing practical and commercially focused advice on all issues arising in the course of the employment relationship.

Our clients include leading multinational and Irish companies, public sector organisations and senior executives. Arising from William Fry’s prominence in M&A work, a significant portion of our practice involves the employment aspects of takeovers and business sales.

We represent clients in claims before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Labour Court, the High Court and the Supreme Court.

Alicia Compton

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Experience

Our experience includes:

Advising market leaders in almost all industry sectors including DCC, B&Q, Marsh Ireland Ltd, CPL, Boots, Diageo, Digital Realty Trust and Smurfit Kappa Group.
Representing B&Q Ireland Limited in a four-day High Court Appeal judgment which clarified the law in Ireland in relation to bonus and allowance payments.
Acted as Lead Counsel for Tesco during the re-tendering of its transport/distribution contract for Ireland.
Acted as advisor and counsel to Hasbro Inc. in its purchase of well-known Irish animation company Boulder Media.
Advised the AA, the UK’s largest breakdown cover organisation, on the sale of its Irish business and operations, AA Ireland Limited, to US-Irish private equity fund Carlyle Cardinal Ireland.
Advised on the largest real estate related transaction in the history of the Irish State, we acted for the joint venture in acquiring ownership of a number of assets that were owned and developed by Chartered Land, including Dundrum Town Centre (Ireland’s largest shopping centre).
Acting for Dunnes Stores in a landmark Supreme Court appeal overturning the judgment of the High Court granting damages for wrongful dismissal and in respect of personal injury.
Advising SOLAS and B&Q on an ongoing basis on health and safety issues.
Advising a number of major corporations on severance agreements with senior executives.
Advising a number of employers in relation to ‘team moves’ by former employees and, in one case, obtaining and executing an Anton Piller Order against former employees.

Areas of Expertise

Our areas of expertise include:

Recruitment
Equality
Bullying and harassment
Disciplinary investigations and procedures
Employment injunction proceedings
Dismissals
Redundancy Programmes
Post-termination restrictive covenants
Employment issues in receiverships, examinerships and liquidations
Employee rights in business sales and outsourcings, including Transfer of Undertakings Issues
Industrial Relations
Preparing bespoke training sessions for HR personnel on specific