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WRC 2023 Annual Report Round Up

The Workplace Relations Commission’s Annual Report showcases recent developments and complaint trends in employment and industrial relations law.…

19/06/24

About Kady

Kady is a Partner on our Employment Law & Benefits Team. Kady provides strategic and commercial advice to international and domestic clients across all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. Kady is particularly experienced in advising international companies on restructuring strategy, including advising on employment due diligence, employee consultation and on complex TUPE transactions.

Clients rely on Kady to successfully guide them through sensitive HR issues, including complex workplace investigations and dismissals. Kady is an experienced litigator and regularly appears before the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court and the civil courts on behalf of clients.

Kady advises clients in the public and private sector.

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Education

Trinity College Dublin, LL.B
University College London, LL.M
Université de Poitiers, Diplôme Universitaire d’Études Juridiques Françaises, (Diploma in French Legal Studies)
University College Dublin, Diploma in Employment Law

Professional Memberships

The Law Society of Ireland

Representative Matters

Advised Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), on the employment aspects of a transfer of the functions of a research centre to CHI. This involved reviewing and advising on the transfer documentation, including negotiating employment warranties and indemnities.
Acts as trusted advisor to wide range of multinational luxury retail clients. Kady has advised extensively on performance management issues, sickness absences, flexible working arrangements and redundancies.
Advised a British multinational manufacturing company on the employment law aspects of a proposal to cease future accrual of benefits in the company’s longstanding pension scheme.
Advised an award-winning automotive software group on the exit of the Managing Director of its Irish entity.
Advised a multinational biopharmaceutical company in relation to the renegotiation of its existing outsourcing arrangements with key suppliers. This included offering commercial advice on the application of the EC (Protection of Employees on the Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003 (TUPE) and negotiating warranties and indemnities to protect our client.
Advised a major technology company in relation to the closure of its Irish workplace and its transition to fully remote working arrangements.
Extensively advised on the application and implications of TUPE in relation to large-scale mergers and acquisitions.

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WRC 2023 Annual Report Round Up

About Kady

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