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Flynn O'Driscoll LLP

Practice Area: Employment

Practice Area's Profile: Flynn O'Driscoll has extensive experience in advising on all facets of the employment relationship from managing challenging interpersonal issues to dismissals and redundancies. We offer strategic and operational advices on a wide range of employment, equality, and industrial relations law issues throughout the public and private sector. Our clients include many leading multinational and Irish companies, pension scheme trustees, and public sector organisations.
Services:
  • The engagement, employment, organisation and management of employees
  • Advising employees and employers on contentious matters where the employment relationship has broken down
  • Drafting a full range of employment contracts as well as third party contracts for services, outsourcing arrangements, employment agency contracts
  • Assisting with drafting and implementation of a full range of HR policies, IT acceptable use, dignity in the workplace, bullying and harassment, holidays and time off, hours of work
  • Advices in relation to compensation and benefits- contractual terms, bonus and incentive schemes, “good” and “bad” leaver provisions
  • Advices in relation to confidentiality, know-how protection, data protection, confidentiality, IP and freedom of information
  • Advices in relation to TUPE Regulations and outsourcing arrangements
  • Interaction and consultation with employees and employers in all labour fora and courts as well as mediations
Deals: Given the sensitive and confidential nature of employment disputes, we cannot name specific clients. Examples of recent experience include:

Advising on the successful appeal of a decision of the Department of Social Welfare that an independent contract was an employee.

Representing Naturgy Aprovisionamientos S.A. in the proposed sale of certain group companies registered in Ireland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales.

Advisers


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Beatty, Walter


Firm: Flynn O'Driscoll LLP
Position: Partner
Address: No. 1 Grants Row, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HX96,
Phone: +353 86 815 8992
Email: walterbeatty@fod.ie
Personal URL: https://www.fod.ie/people/walter-beatty

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Heery, Caoimhe


Firm: Flynn O'Driscoll LLP
Position: Partner
Address: No. 1 Grants Row, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HX96,
Phone: +353 1 693 1788
Email: caoimheheery@fod.ie
Personal URL: https://fod.ie/people/caoimhe-heery/

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McDermott, Claire


Firm: Flynn O'Driscoll LLP
Position: Partner
Address: No. 1 Grants Row, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HX96,
Phone: +353 1 642 4259
Email: clairemcdermott@fod.ie
Personal URL: https://fod.ie/people/claire-mcdermott/

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O'Driscoll, Alan


Firm: Flynn O'Driscoll LLP
Position: Founding Partner
Address: No. 1 Grants Row, Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2, D02 HX96,
Phone: +353 1 642 4260
Email: alanodriscoll@fod.ie
Personal URL: https://fod.ie/people/alan-o-driscoll/