Good employee relations are an integral part of your business’s success.
Our labor and employment practices offer a coordinated service across all jurisdictions, so wherever you operate, we can give you the best advice on managing your company’s most important assets: the people who make it work.
We have one of the largest employment law teams in the world, with a network of over 430 dedicated lawyers in our offices around the globe. We can offer you support in every jurisdiction in which you do business, and our seamless coordination across our global offices will help your business run smoothly and successfully too. Above all, you will always get specific, practical, actionable advice.
Whether you’re a blue-chip FTSE or Fortune 500 company, an exciting new start-up, a public authority or a government body, we have organizations of your size already on our client list. We’ve been at the forefront of employment law for more than half a century, and our work has won us awards on several continents, and recognition in Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and other independent research guides.
Work is ever-changing, and we are here to help you navigate the legal challenges coming down the road towards you. Ongoing globalization and an increasingly mobile workforce, the impact of technology on employers and employees, and the changing nature of contractual arrangements, as well as rapidly evolving conversations over pay equity, diversity and inclusion, and health and safety, are themes we are not just on top of, we’re leading the conversation. With our support, you’ll be leading in these areas too.
Our lawyers are experienced in all aspects of employment law. Our recent experience includes:
- successfully defending a multinational technology company against multiple claims of race discrimination taken by a group of disgruntled employees/candidates
- securing an injunction against a former employee on behalf of a multinational insurance broker to prevent breaches of his contractual post-termination restrictions
- advising a multinational fintech company on large scale collective redundancies arising from the restructuring of its Irish operations and transfer of jobs to overseas locations. This was the culmination of many months of work with Legal, HR, Communications and Public Relations across Ireland, the US and Asia
- advising a multinational insurance broker on a number of highly contentious employee exists, including successfully securing an injunction against a former employee to prevent breaches of his contractual post-termination restrictions
- conducting a comprehensive review of the employment status of contractors on behalf of the national broadcaster. The project is one of the most significant reviews of contractor status in Ireland