Workplace Legal Compliance

Overview

At Alastair Purdy & Co, our employment team understands that the prevention of contentious disputes starts at the beginning of the employment relationship. Therefore, we aim to advise and guide client’s through the totality of the relationship, identifying potential weakness and areas of improvement so as to meet the required standards under an ever changing employment law landscape. By providing practical and concise advises, we ensure that our client’s are able to comply with any potential inspection and audit.

What we provide

Our employment team advises and assists employers on such areas as including:

Working time records
Data Protection
Data retention
Data subject access requests
HSA inspections/notices
COVID-19 compliance
WRC inspections
Collective redundancies
Work permits
In addition to the above, our employment team have vast experience in drafting a variety of employment law and HR documentation, including:
Drafting, reviewing and advising on proposed contract of employments
Drafting and reviewing of company handbooks
Drafting and reviewing individual company policies, not limited to grievance and disciplinary procedures, protective leaves, whistleblowing, health and safety, rest breaks, absences, redundancy, dismissal, CCTV, privacy notices, data protection and data retention.

Recent Works

Our employment team guided one of Ireland biggest vehicle distributors through a WRC inspection concerning a number of working time queries on start and finishing times for drivers, record keeping and rest breaks.
Alastair Purdy & Co, recently advised medium sized employer on a data impact assessment report and provided guidance in regards to the implementation to same.
Our firm has begun advising and implementing home working arrangements for a variety of small to medium sized businesses, by providing tailored made remote and/or flexible working policies.
Our firm regularly manages and guides employers in response to employee data subject access requests on behalf of employers.
Recently advised and guided a SME medical company through a collective redundancy.