CareerWise Attend CIPD Midwest – Employment Law Update

Pictured – Brendan Long (CareerWise), Lavinia Ryan (VHI), Cathal Esler (Shannon Group) and Joe Robbins (CareerWise)

CareerWise Recruitment attended a recent CIPD Midwest Employment Law Update on the 16th  of November at The Inn at Dromoland, Clare.

A Year in Review – Legislative Changes and Cases of Note 2017 & What to expect in 2018

This event informed HR professionals about;
* Relevant HR legislation updates
* Retirement Age – What the law now requires of employers
* Zero Hours contracts and banded hours contracts – Government Proposals
* Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015
* Case Law Review – Key cases of Note 2017

Guest Speaker Muireann McEnery has worked with Ibec since 2013 in the role of Human Resource and Industrial Relations Executive. In this role she advises employers on HR, IR and employment law related matters as well as representing employers at the Employment Appeals Tribunal, Equality Tribunal, Rights Commissioner and Labour Court. Muireann is a graduate of University College Dublin where she completed a Bachelor of Civil Law and of Trinity College Dublin where she completed a Masters in Law. Muireann trained as a Solicitor with a top tier Dublin law firm where she specialised in Employment Law before working with Peninsula Business Services for 6 years as an Employment Law Consultant and Advocate. She also holds a Diploma in Employment Law from the Law Society of Ireland and a Diploma in Industrial Relations from Dublin Institute of Technology.

Joe Robbins

(Director) BBS (Hons), MBPICS – Shannon Office

Joe Robbins is co-founder of CareerWise Recruitment. A graduate of the University of Limerick (Degree in Business Studies, 1985), Joe worked in the UK for five years where he specialised in materials management, production management and plant management for a number of companies.

He returned to Ireland in 1992 to become Operations Manager for a Cork-based start-up, FMC Automotive Division which was subsequently taken over by Snap-on Equipment. Joe managed the business re-location of this company to Shannon in 1997 before setting up CareerWise Recruitment in 1999.

He is a committee member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Mid-West region, and a former Director and Vice President of the Shannon Chamber of Commerce. Joe is former Chairperson of the Sixmilebridge Camogie Club and current Chairperson of the Clare County Camogie Board.

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