Employment
Our team has decades of experience advising leading multinational pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device companies with a presence in Ireland. We support clients in the life sciences sector on all aspects of employment law, including corporate transactions, outsourcings, large-scale change and restructuring, HR processes, and employment litigation. Our deep sectoral knowledge enables us to guide clients through the complex, regulated, and fast-paced environment in which they operate.
We take a commercial and practical approach to matters including:
- HR processes (whistleblowing, bullying and harassment, grievance and disciplinary investigations, including GMP breaches)
- defending employment litigation before the WRC, Labour Court, Circuit Court, and High Court
- terminations, performance, and absence management
- executive compensation, benefits, and incentives (including pensions and share schemes)
- managing relationships with EWCs, employee representative bodies, and trade unions, and advising on industrial action and union recognition
- employment aspects of outsourcings and corporate transactions, including TUPE transfers
- enforcing restrictive covenants and protecting intellectual property and confidential information
- project managing large-scale change and restructuring (redundancies, reorganisations, harmonisations)
We are known for our collaborative approach, working closely with colleagues in pensions, share schemes, data protection, and white-collar crime to provide clients with comprehensive, expert support.
Our experience
A multinational medical devices company in obtaining a High Court injunction to prevent a former employee from misusing confidential information and valuable IP that had been misappropriated by a departed employee.
A multinational medical devices company managing the shutdown of a key Irish manufacturing site, covering collective redundancy, stakeholder communications, trade union negotiations, and redundancy terms agreement through WRC conciliation.
Several executive and Director departures from the board and senior leadership team of an Ireland-headquartered multinational pharma company, with Irish law employment contracts and complex US benefit and severance plans.
Various multinational pharmaceutical companies on all employment law matters, including recruitment, performance management, absenteeism, terminations, investigations, disciplinary issues, and benefit harmonisation.
A multinational pharma company on a complex investigation involving a number of whistleblowers.
Novartis on all of the employment law aspects of the sale of its Ringaskiddy plant to Sterline Pharma Solutions.
A multinational pharmaceutical company on European Works Counsel. ALG led and project managed on the establishment of a Special Negotiating Body for the purpose of negotiating a European Works Council Agreement, involving over 25 countries across Europe.
Endo on all Irish law employment aspects of its exit from a US Chapter 11 restructuring and on its pending $6.7bn merger of equals with Mallinckrodt, including the Transfer of Undertakings regulations and how it applies to various corporate structures and re-organisations, on consulting with employees, workplace change and restructuring, and the employment aspects of a host of transaction documents.
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