Employment

We have Ireland’s largest Employment Group and we provide an extensive range of legal services to clients on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law, whether it is a problem relating to an individual employee or a complex issue affecting your entire workforce.

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Our Employment Group adopts a partnership approach and works very closely with chairs, chief executives, in-house counsel, HR directors and HR professionals to find practical, effective and creative solutions to both everyday and exceptional problems. We pride ourselves on having a very strong commercial approach to problem-solving. The Group is consistently top ranked in the areas of Employment / Labour Law and Industrial Relations, and is an established market leader in its field with considerable experience in advising on a vast range of complex employment issues for a wide variety of clients at both national and global levels.

We have extensive experience in dealing with every aspect of the employer – employee relationship, including:

Strategic people issues at board/CEO level
Employment litigation, mediation and dispute resolution
Employment contracts, policies and handbooks
Appointment and severance of senior executives
Outsourcing of services
Discrimination, equality and equal status law
Redundancies and collective redundancies
Immigration and employment permits
Employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other commercial transactions
High Court litigation and dismissal/non-compete/picketing injunctions
Equal pay and gender pay gap reporting
Employment agencies and agency workers
Collective disputes, industrial action and trade union relations/recognition
Health and safety
Atypical work arrangements (part time, fixed term, job-sharing, flexible working, home-working, etc.)
Bullying, harassment and victimisation
Dismissals, disciplinary and performance management
Employee benefits and pensions
Employee privacy
Whistleblowing/protected disclosures
Crisis management

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Our team advises a wide variety of clients including multinational publicly listed companies and their subsidiaries in Ireland, private companies including venture backed and high growth companies, financial institutions, trustees and individual awardees.

Relevant Experience

Due to the sensitive nature of the work involved, we do not disclose our clients’ details but examples of the types of work undertaken by the Group are as follows:

Obtaining High Court injunctions restraining unlawful picketing by employees and their trade unions, and advising on disputes with trade unions on recognition issues and collective bargaining and claims in relation to pay and conditions
Defending High Court injunction applications sought by employees to restrain the termination of employment and/or disciplinary action
Defending claims for personal injury and occupational illness/stress/bullying and harassment
Advocacy at the Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court in litigation relating to statutory employment claims, as well as industrial relations issues
Advising on the management/processing of whistleblowing/protected disclosure investigations
Advising on disputes on retirement and pensions issues, including age discrimination, professional added years, augmentation of benefits and early retirement
Defending deemed employment claims
Providing employment law advice and support on some of Ireland largest corporate transactions

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Endorsements

“The team has deep expertise in the law, its interpretation and most importantly what would best work in a client’s context, enabling them to give practical insights.”

Chambers Europe, 2025

“The Arthur Cox team offers extensive knowledge of pensions and applies a very pragmatic approach to issues which results in clear and sensible advice.”

Chambers Europe, 2025

“There is a wealth of knowledge and experience in the department that results in a very strong commercially aware team.”

Chambers Europe, 2025

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