Legal Updates 2023: Commercial and Employment Law Highlights, Ireland

A webinar discussing 2023 legal updates, including commercial and employment law.

10:00 - 11:00

As the Irish economy grapples with a range of challenges, including emergence from a global pandemic to war in Europe, developments in the law have been not been far behind in reflecting these significant changes.

This presentation will examine these developments in the course of 2021/2022. From remote working to new paid sick leave entitlements, 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 dismissal law, health and safety law and contractual terms as well as a some essential highlights of other statutory protections. 

This presentation will also provide an opportunity for those attending to see how the 2021/2022 developments fit into and affect the law as it currently stands as well as to discuss these trends.

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Speakers

John Eardly

John Eardly is Programme Director of the LLB (Hons) in Irish Law and BA in Law and Business in the Faculty of Law of Griffith College Ireland. He is a barrister whose experience in general practice includes employment and industrial relations law, chancery, injunctions, immigration, refugee law, judicial reviews, tort and contract. He is also a widely published author and guest speaker at many Professional Practice Conferences. 

In 2003, he was part of a team of authors published by the Law Society of Ireland in their ground-breaking book, "DIscrimination Law in Ireland" which focused on the fast developing area of human rights and equality law in Ireland. 

In 2002, he wrote one of the seminal and leading publications on employment rights in Ireland, "Bullying and Stress At Work. Employers and Employees: A Guide." 

John was also Editor of the Employment Law Review Ireland from 2005.

He has extensive experience of teaching and lecturing at both student and professional practice level, including the Law School of the Law Society of Ireland and the Honourable Society of the King's Inns as well as professional practice training for legal practitioners at the Irish Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the Bar Council of Ireland.

John was educated at the University of Limerick, University College, Dublin and the Honourable Society of the King's Inns.