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Our Employment Law Group delivers strategic and practical employment law advice to organisations, both national and international.


The team consists of highly skilled and experienced specialists who advise on the full range of employment, equality and industrial relations issues. We work collaboratively with other practice groups, combining employment law expertise with strategic and commercial insights to create innovative, integrated solutions to HR issues.


We are experienced in advising on all employment law aspects of complex and contentious disputes, investigations as well as corporate transactions, often with a cross-border element.


Our Pensions and Incentives Group provides experienced direction on transactional and advisory work for domestic and international, private sector and public sector clients. Our clients cover the full range of multi-national corporate organisations, major domestic bodies and State and commercial semi-State entities, SME and start-up clients. We advise on the design, implementation and restructuring of pension and remuneration plans. The Group has a history of advising in some of the most complex and largest pension issues. We have particular experience in cases which have evolved due to distressed situations for trustees and employers for schemes relating to high profile companies, bodies and organisations.


Our incentives work involves advising sponsoring employers and trustees on both Revenue approved and unapproved incentive plans.

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What the Team is Known For

McCann FitzGerald has a widely praised employment department with substantial experience within the team. The law firm acts on non-contentious mandates relating to the transfer of undertakings in transactions, collective redundancies or data protection compliance. Lawyers in the practice handle employment-related litigation pertaining to discrimination, equality, unfair dismissal and harassment claims. The team also has experience in remuneration matters and protected disclosure mandates. In addition, it has strong knowledge of pensions issues within both the public and private sectors, advising trustees and employers on a range of matters relating to defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, including IORP II compliance, benefits harmonisation and pensions-related disputes.

Work Highlights

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  • McCann FitzGerald advised Globoforce on the full range of employment and business immigration matters, including collective redundancy process.

Strengths

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The firm is a go-to for handling board level employment disputes.

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The team is very thorough, responsive and a pleasure to work with.

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The team is very practical, efficient and cost effective.

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The team is strong and knowledgeable about statutory schemes.

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Notable Practitioners

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Catherine Austin
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Catherine Austin
2
Band 2
Catherine Austin assists clients with the pensions aspects of M&A transactions, in addition to advising on IORP II compliance and scheme restructurings. She is skilled at offering advice to both trustees and corporates.

Catherine is a top-class lawyer with a fantastic knowledge of pensions. She is always available to provides expert and practical legal advice. 

Catherine is very thorough with her work and a pleasure to work with.

Catherine Austin is very responsive and uses strong technical knowledge to find practical solutions.

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Eleanor Cunningham
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Eleanor Cunningham
2
Band 2
Eleanor Cunningham heads the law firm's pensions and incentives department and focuses her practice on employee share schemes and pensions plans, in addition to advising on IORP II compliance. She acts for trustees and companies in the public and private spheres, and is also adept at dealing with contentious issues.

Eleanor provides commercially and politically astute advice.

Eleanor has an extensive knowledge of the field.

She is hugely knowledgeable on the subject matter, extremely responsive to requests for advice and an excellent lawyer to have in your corner.

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Mary Brassil
3
Mary Brassil
3
Band 3
Mary Brassil is experienced in a broad range of employment topics, including contested dismissals, individual discrimination disputes and protected disclosure mandates. She is best known for her work on the labour law aspects of corporate transactions.

Mary Brassil is highly regarded in the industry, confident, provides clarity and assists with challenging issues.

Mary is fantastic to deal with, her knowledge is incredible and she is very efficient.

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Donal Hamilton
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Donal Hamilton
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Up and Coming

Donal represents clients in employment related issues such as terminations, union-related activities, immigration advice and employee disciplinary proceedings.

Donal's commercial awareness and knowledge of the trends and market factors at play make him a go-to adviser.

Donal is a wonderful partner with good instincts and an awareness of court cases in Ireland that impact employment law.

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Mary Brassil
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Mary Brassil
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Donal Hamilton
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Donal Hamilton
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Catherine Austin
2
Catherine Austin
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Eleanor Cunningham
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Eleanor Cunningham
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