Deirdre Malone
Europe Guide 2024
Band 4 : Employment
Band 4
About
Provided by Deirdre Malone
Practice Areas
Deirdre leads EY Law Ireland's employment law team, working with the wider EY Law and EY network to offer clients integrated and seamless solutions. She has over 20 years' experience acting for private and public sector clients advising on all aspects of employment law from recruitment to termination.
Key areas in which Deirdre works to support clients includes: workforce transformation (strategy connected to benefits, remote and hybrid working, right to disconnect, talent retention management), HR advisory (industrial/employee relations issues, protected disclosures, grievances, dignity at work and disciplinary matters), Equality issues (pay transparency, gender pay gap reporting and equality complaints to the Workplace Relations Commission), Investigations, TUPE and workforce restructuring (including individual and collective redundancies).
Deirdre regularly represents employer clients before the WRC and Courts. As a qualified CEDR accredited Mediator, she brings extensive experience of successful mediation and dispute resolution to her clients.
Deirdre joined EY Law Ireland as one of its founding partners and Head of Employment Law in 2021. She is an active member of the Law Society of Ireland's Employment & Equality Committee.
Professional Memberships
Law Society of Ireland
Clients
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Chambers Review
Europe
Deirdre Malone of EY Law assists clients with performance management programmes, senior executive termination, discrimination, unfair dismissal cases and redundancies. She also has experience in remote working arrangements and protected disclosure matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Deirdre Malone always provides thorough guidance from a legal perspective and explains it clearly."
"Deirdre Malone always provides thorough guidance from a legal perspective and explains it clearly."
