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The area of employment law has expanded substantially over the last two decades, the Law Society 2025 employment-law update has heard (5 November).

Ireland’s growing population, changing work environments, and employees’ enhanced awareness of their rights have all increased demand, which is being met by growing numbers of employment-law specialists.

This year’s online update, held in conjunction with Law Society Professional Training, was aimed at encouraging a wider range of general practitioners to incorporate the specialist field into their practice.

During a comprehensive overview, Susan Battye (head of Bird & Bird employment team) and Nichola Harkin (head of employment-law services in IBEC) outlined how the mechanisms of employment law had been simplified in the decade since the establishment of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

Harkin also explained that, because the WRC sat all over the country and remotely, it made employment law an attractive practice area for solicitors countrywide.

Other key areas raised were:

• Managing client expectations,
• Importance of section 150 letters, and keeping costs tight and clear,
• The fact that WRC hearings are public and increasingly reported upon, and
• Value in developing networks with specialists in other fields, notably tax advisors.

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