Melanie is Head of our Employment Law & Benefits team. She covers the full range of employment law and is a trusted advisor on complex workplace issues. She is widely recognised as a game-changer when resolving seemingly intractable employment problems.
Melanie is the go-to lawyer for some of Ireland’s biggest domestic and multi-national companies on contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
She assists clients in drafting bespoke employment contracts, agreements and HR policies and procedures. Melanie also provides on-going support to HR managers in the management of day to day disciplinary issues along with more strategic internal reorganisations and rationalisations. Her wealth of knowledge and experience on challenges like transfer of undertakings and large scale outsourcing transactions is particularly noted in the market.
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