Alice
Duffy

Notable examples of the recent types of work that Alice has been involved in include:

• Conducted a highly sensitive multi-jurisdictional grievance investigation involving two senior members of a global fintech company’s leadership team. This entailed a cross-border fact gathering investigation into allegations of gender discrimination and retaliation for long-term medical leave. Due to the substantial reputational and litigation risk implications, this matter involved careful consideration and management of complex international employment law and principles of natural justice and fair procedures;
• Advised and co-ordinated a global reduction in force impacting approximately 14% of the workforce of a multinational technology company across 20 jurisdictions. With over 500 employees at risk of redundancy in Ireland, this project included time sensitive, strategic advice and training to the board of directors on collective redundancy obligations, tech focused severance strategy, advice on political and media commentary, including consulting with the IDA, Ireland’s FDI agency; specialist advice on industrial relation communications, including management of a Labour Relations dispute and crisis management support relating to inter-group redundancy consultations;
• Advised a global gaming services platform on the closure of its physical offices and move to permanent remote working. This work including advising on contract variation and employee consultation process across its Irish workforce, as well as successful resolution of a complex disability discrimination dispute before the Workplace Relations Commission;
• Assisting a multinational AI research and development company on all stages of the establishment of the company’s Irish operations including its first strategic hires. This has involved creating employment documentation for all stages of the employment lifecycle, background checks, staffing models, benchmarking employee benefits to support competitiveness in the talent market and general employment law compliance;
• Successfully secured High Court injunctive relief against a global financial services company’s former employee in the context of the alleged theft and misuse of a client’s confidential information;
• Handed a sensitive investigation on behalf of an international media client into serious allegations of breaches of their code of conduct, conflicts of interest policies, fraud, raised against members of its Irish c-suite;
• Counselled numerous international companies on the implementation of hybrid and remote working arrangements, global mobility programmes and the new rights to request flexible working arising under recent work life balance legislation;
• Advised a global investment bank on a cross-border merger from an employment law perspective arising under the new EU Mobility Directive, including advice on complex issues pertaining to employee participation rights and consultation under the transfer of undertakings rules;
• Successful defence of claims for penalisation under Protected Disclosures legislation against a global software service company and subsequent support and advice on the implementation of local whistleblowing channels and procedures in compliance with new obligations under the EU Whistleblowing Directive and;
• Advised multinational employers on global diversity and inclusion strategies, including global diversity data collection, pay equity and transparency obligations.

• Professional Diploma in Employment Law: 2014-2015
• Legal Practice Course (LPC), BPP Law School: 2008-2009
• Master E-commerce & Commercial Law (LLM), University College Cork: 2004-2005
• Bachelor Business & Law (BBLS), University College Dublin: 2000-2004