Welcome to Alastair Purdy & Co Solicitors
SPECIALIST LEGAL ADVICE
- We are a dedicated Business Law Firm with offices in Dublin and Galway providing friendly, professional services.
- We provide our services in a friendly, business-like manner, always keeping our clients fully informed of the issues affecting the matter in hand through a philosophy of prevention rather than detection. We are business-focused and results-driven.
- We offer all our clients practical, efficient and effective assistance in all types of legal transactions.
- We do not consider ourselves as simply your solicitor’s firm but as an integral part of your business, providing tailor made solutions for any issues encountered.
Right to legal representation in workplace disciplinary procedures
The Supreme Court, in McKelvey v Irish Rail [2019], have issued a welcome clarification of an employee's entitlement to ‘representation’ during internal disciplinary procedures; ruling that same is only permitted in ‘exceptional’ circumstances. Unless this standard is...
read moreContracts of Employment: Overhaul of Sunday Premiums
In the recent case of Trinity Leisure Holdings Limited (t/a Trinity City Hotel) v Kolesnik & Anor [2019] IEHC 654, an employer was successful before the High Court in appealing the Labour Court’s decision which had previously found in favour of the two employees,...
read morePaid 2 Weeks Parents Leave
Parents Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 On the 1st November 2019, first time legislation pertaining to Parents Leave came into effect by virtue of the Parents Leave and Benefit Bill 2019 which confers a number of rights to either parent upon the of a child. it i...
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