Lewis Silkin works with leading businesses to protect and enhance their most important assets - their ideas, their people and their future. We call it: Ideas. People. Possibilities.
Our Belfast office provides comprehensive employment law services across the UK and the island of Ireland. We are recognised by clients and industry alike for our distinctive culture, deep local expertise, and market-leading practice areas.
Our team of dual-qualified lawyers offers clear, pragmatic, and commercial advice on all aspects of employment law – from recruitment to departure and everything in between. We have particular strength in handling complex and multijurisdictional matters with a practical and human approach.
We also support clients in specialist areas including:
Employment tribunal and High Court litigation
Workplace investigations
Data, privacy and cyber issues
Immigration
The Lewis Silkin and Legal Island Comparative Employment Law Table outlines the key differences between GB, NI and ROI employment laws as of June 2025.
The purpose of this re-vamped table is to provide a handy reference guide to the key similarities and differences across the 3 jurisdictions, together with a ‘look forward’ section to potential or expected developments. Links to relevant legislation, articles and other documents are included in the hope that this will assist you to understand and deal with the differences in employment law developments in GB, NI and ROI. Find it here:
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