Employment Law Developments - Q&A with Mark McAllister
Published on: 18/01/2018
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Mark McAllister is Director of Employment Relations Services with the LRA and part-time lecturer in Law. He specialises in employment law, dispute prevention and strategic collaborative working in industrial and employment relations. Mark is the former Northern Ireland Convenor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and the Chair of the NI ICSA Governance Institute. He is an accredited mediator,  a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Group and the Industrial Law Society and is a regular speaker on the employment law circuit and contributor to employment law publications.

During our webinar on 10th January with Mark McAllister of the LRA on his update on key employment law developments from 2017, we received a number of questions on the day, some of which we didn't have time to answer live. Mark has pulled together some of those questions into a wide-ranging Q&A article for Legal-Island subscribers. At the end of this email, we also have links to the entire podcast recording of the webinar and a searchable transcript document.

Q: Can HR challenge the individuals’ assertion that it is a whistleblowing complaint at the point the complaint is made? ⚓︎

When it comes to HR “challenging” an assertion this presents difficulties especially if the individual has instigated the

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 18/01/2018