Employment: Pensions
Europe Guide 2024 : Ireland
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Employment Law
The dedicated employment law unit in Eversheds Sutherland Ireland provides assistance to clients in navigating this increasingly complex area of law. We believe in the importance of understanding each client’s specific employment and labour relations culture and our priority is to provide practical, pragmatic and client-centred solutions.
We advise clients on legal issues arising throughout the life cycle of the employment relationship, beginning at the recruitment stage, including interviews, employment contracts, handbooks and policies. We work with HR professionals and management teams on:
- equality issues
- industrial relations disputes
- sporadic and long-term absenteeism
- bullying and harassment
- stress claims
- the employment considerations arising in commercial transactions and business transfers
Pensions & Employee Benefits
Our Pensions & Employee Benefits group offers advice in three core areas - pensions, share schemes and ESOPs.
Chambers Review
Eversheds Sutherland has a strong pensions team that advises trustees and blue-chip companies on complex and cross-border issues relating to defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, including the launch of master trusts, wind-ups and restructuring processes. The law firm is known for handling contentious employment matters such as redundancies and unfair dismissals, often involving senior-level employees. The team is experienced in assisting corporates with employment law-related GDPR compliance and disciplinary matters. It acts for both domestic and international clients, most notably in the technology, healthcare and retail sectors.
Strengths
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"Eversheds have an excellent ability to understand complex matters and relay them in simple and understandable terms."
"All potential proposals are well thought through and very clearly presented and communicated."
"Eversheds provides excellent service levels at all times and extremely prompt responses, and if a response is requested with urgency for a particular reason, this is acknowledged by the team."
"Eversheds have an excellent ability to understand complex matters and relay them in simple and understandable terms."
"All potential proposals are well thought through and very clearly presented and communicated."
"Eversheds provides excellent service levels at all times and extremely prompt responses, and if a response is requested with urgency for a particular reason, this is acknowledged by the team."
Notable Practitioners
Joanne Hyde is noted for her ability to provide solutions in sensitive and complex employment matters. She expertly handles collective redundancies and senior executive exits, offering additional experience in unfair dismissals, disciplinary issues and discrimination claims. She also advises on gender pay gap compliance and internal investigations.
"Joanne is extremely responsive and provides very high-quality guidance."
"Joanne's expertise and experience is unmatched. She is incredibly knowledgeable, pragmatic and commercially aware, such that her timely and on-point advice is superb."
Peter Fahy remains a prominent lawyer in the market, having longstanding experience advising corporate clients and trustees on contentious and non-contentious pensions topics, pension plan wind-ups, the establishment of master trusts and transfers.
"Peter provides us with an excellent service and very detailed advice. He is also very aware of time challenges and responds accordingly."
"Peter delivers an excellent level of service on both large projects and the day-to-day running of pensions schemes."
"Peter Fahy is an excellent person to have in your corner."
Julie Galbraith is a prominent lawyer advising international companies on a range of collective and individual employment law matters. She often handles cross-border transfers of employees and compliance matters, in addition to policy implementation and redundancies.
"Julie is a brilliant employment lawyer. She is diligent, proactive and provides sound legal advice."
"Julie combines strong technical skill with pragmatic commercial awareness. She is a superb jargon-free communicator."
"Julie is highly knowledgeable, understands our business extremely well and is a highly trusted partner to our business."
Marie Claire Scullion assists with a range of employment issues, including terminations, redundancies, TUPE issues and the employment elements of M&A transactions. She also handles sexual harassment claims. She joined Eversheds Sutherland from Whitney Moore in January 2024.
"Marie Claire Scullion consistently demonstrates excellent legal understanding of complex issues and has an innate ability to give pragmatic, business-focused advice."
"Marie Claire is very helpful, responsive, efficient and approachable."
David McKeating assists corporate clients and trustees with a range of pensions matters including winding up, mergers and demergers of pensions schemes, the establishment of master funds and IORP II compliance.
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