The 2022 Employment Bar Association (EBA) Annual Conference took place on December 15.
Panel chairs included Danny McCoy of IBEC and Ms Justice Marguerite Bolger. Speakers and topics included: Mairéad McKenna SC on ‘The live feed of social media problems in employment law’; Mark Connaughton SC on ‘Reform and amendment of the law on protected disclosures: the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act, 2022’; Oisín Quinn SC on ‘I used to work here – the future of the workplace in a post-pandemic world’; Cathy Smith SC on ‘From cooking a fry to delivering a pie: Denny, Domino's and the status of the worker in Irish law’; Barra Faughnan BL on ‘Beyond belief – religion and the workplace’; Lorna Madden BL on ‘Mind the gap – regulating the gender pay differential’; and, Kiwana Ennis BL on ‘Sorry we can’t help you – the impact of illegality on the employment contract in Ireland’.
