A webinar covering key employment law developments and their impact on professional practices.
10:30-11:30
Date: 15 May 2025
As the global and European economies face unprecedented turbulence, developments in the law have not been far behind in reflecting these significant changes. This presentation will examine important employment law developments in the course of 2024/2025. From restrictions on the use of NDAs in agreements with employees, to pension auto-enrolment to greater gender pay gap transparency, keeping up with development is more important than ever.
This seminar is vital to all professional practices not only in terms of the employment obligations of those practices themselves but also in terms of any relevant commercial issues that may arise for client of those practices. In particular, negotiating the terrain of employment entitlements can be particularly difficult when dealing with the various compensation scales and ceilings that apply depending on what type of legislation or issue is involved. On top of that, many professional practices have to deal with restrictive covenants, how to identify workers as independent contractors or employees and recruitment and promotion procedures. Included in this presentation will be an overview of developments in dismissal law, health and safety law and contractual terms as well as some essential highlights of other statutory protections.
This presentation will also provide an opportunity for those attending to see how the 2024/2025 developments fit into and affect the law as it currently stands as well as to discuss these trends.
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John is the Programme Director of the awarding winning LLB (Hons) in Law, Commercial Law and Criminal Justice Programmes in Griffith College Dublin. He is also a barrister whose practice in law reflected his experience and specialisation in employment and industrial relations law, chancery/injunctions, immigration/refugee law, judicial reviews, tort and contract.
An accomplished writer, John wrote a highly influential publication on employment rights in Ireland, "Bullying and Stress at Work. Employers and Employees: A Guide" (2002). He also co-wrote "Discrimination Law in Ireland" (published by the Law Society of Ireland, 2003). This ground-breaking publication focused on human rights and equality law in Ireland and brought leading experts together to give their analysis on the Employment Equality Act 1998. He is currently writing a book on Equity and Trusts Law in Ireland for Clarus Press as part of their core legal texts series.
John was also Editor of the Employment Law Review Ireland for three years and a regularly guest speaker at a range of leading professional practice conferences, including the Irish Centre for Commercial Law Studies in UCD, and the Bar Council of Ireland.
As well as teaching level 8 law undergraduates, John has lectured to professionals in the Law School of the Law Society of Ireland, and the Honorable Society of the King's Inns in Dublin. And in 2007, he organised the first continuous professional development course in employment law for the King’s Inns.