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Compensation for Dismissal

Another big award by the WRC

The Workplace Relations Commission has made another landmark award of compensation in recent weeks. A leading academic at a third-level institution…

02/05/24

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth (‘Liz’) is a Partner in the Employment Law & Benefits team. She supports employers in both the private and public sectors across a wide range of organisations.

Liz provides non-contentious employment law advice to clients ranging from the practical application of employment statute to assisting clients in drafting employment contracts and policies. Liz has advised on complex employee investigations to include those which have been instigated under an employer’s disciplinary, grievance, bullying and harassment and protected disclosures policies.

Liz also has considerable experience in acting for clients in contentious employment litigation before employment law fora and civil courts.

Employment law
Industrial Relations law
The law on Protected Disclosures
Gender Pay Gap Reporting

Authorships

The implications of the ECJ decisions on accrual of annual leave while on sick leave
The law governing agency workers
Mandatory Retirement ages – what does objective justification mean?
Development in domestic and European law on Protected Disclosures
Employers gender pay gap reporting obligations

Engagements

Lecturer and tutor in employment law on the Law Society’s diploma in employment Law and advanced professional course
Regular contributor to the Legal Ireland Annual Review of Employment Law
Has spoken on issues such as social media in the workplace, protected disclosures and age discrimination to clients in the public and private sector
Panel contributor at the annual conference of European Employment Lawyers Association

Education

University College Cork, B.A.
Law Society of Ireland
Honorable Society of Kings Inns, Diploma in Corporate, White Collar and Regulatory Crime

Professional Memberships

Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
Member (and committee member) of the Employment Lawyers Association of Ireland (ELAI)

Acted for Robert Walters in High Court injunction proceedings to successfully restrain two of its senior executives from setting up a recruitment business in competition with it.
Advised Molex Ireland on a large-scale collective redundancy programme arising from the closure of its manufacturing facility with the loss of 500 jobs.
Acted for a Regulator in defending High Court injunction proceedings which were taken against it by a senior manager. The case was settled at mediation on terms satisfactory to the Regulator.
Acted for RR Donnelley in successfully defending a high value penalisation claim taken by an employee who had made a protected disclosure.
Advised Children’s Hospital Ireland in relation the practical application of the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations to the integration of functions from three hospitals into one organisation.
Successfully defended the Talbot Hotel group against a claim by contractors who asserted a right to transfer to the employment of the hotel group under the transfer of undertakings regulations.
Set up and managed an audit process to ensure that contractors to ESB complied with contractor employment stands set by ESB.

Contact Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Ryan

Partner

+353 86 382 1014 eryan@mhc.ie

Elizabeth Ryan

Compensation for Dismissal