Employment Law
OFX advises both employers and employees in relation to a wide range of employment law issues. Our team has built up years of experience in all matters from non-contentious to contentious and pride ourselves on the comprehensive service provided to our clients.
Our team regularly represents clients before the Workplace Relations Commission, Labour Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Court of Appeal.
We are regularly asked to advise clients on employment issues arising on the purchase of a business and have advised clients in collective redundancies situations on many occasions.
Expertise
We advise corporate and individual clients on disputes in the following areas:
- Drafting contracts and policies
- Staff handbooks
- Contracts for services, contracts of service
- Restraint of trade and restrictive covenants
- Secondment agreements
- Garden leave
- Executive contracts
- Health and safety issues
- Injunctions
- Discrimination and victimisation and equality claims
- Bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment)
- Unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal claims
- Obligations under transfer of undertaking regulations
- Employee due diligence
- Confidentiality agreements
- Industrial relations issues
- Termination of contracts and drafting severance agreements
- Data protection and freedom of information issues
- Vetting requirements
- Redundancies and re-organisations
- Performance management
- Atypical workers including part-time workers, fixed-term workers and agency workers
- Protected Disclosures.
Testimonials
‘The firm provides a cutting edge service with employment advice that is focused and gets straight to the heart of the issue. With O’Flynn Exham you get to deal with a partner all of the time.’ – Legal 500 (2025)
‘Clear practical strategic advice, excellent collaboration with internal in-house client legal team, strong understanding of client business, excellent problem solving and excellent availability.’ – Legal 500 (2025)
‘Clear practical strategic advice, excellent collaboration with internal in-house client legal team, strong understanding of client business, excellent problem solving and excellent availability.’ – Legal 500 (2025)
‘The team is cohesive, works well together, share information very well and are very efficient.’- Legal 500 (2024)
‘O’Flynn Exhams have the ability to offer big firm capability with the personal services you only see at very small firms. One of their greatest strengths is in the level of expertise and experience available under one roof.’– Legal 500 (2023)
“Top class service from a boutique firm”. – Legal 500 (2022)
‘This firm offers all the services of a very large practice at very reasonable rates.’ – Legal 500 (2021)
