Seamus McGranaghan qualified as a Solicitor in O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors in 2003 and is an experienced Commercial Lawyer dealing with employment, commercial and education cases.
He has experience in the Industrial Tribunal representing both Claimants and Respondents and has provided seminars in relation to particular areas of employment law. Seamus is the only member of the Education and Law Association in Northern Ireland. He specialises in advising schools and colleges on policy matters, employment issues and student welfare. He is also responsible for the Education Law Quarterly Review.
In addition to having contributed at Legal Island’s Education Updates since 2010, Seamus in association with Legal Island provides a live “Employment Law @ 11” webinar on the first Friday of each month, dealing with all aspects of Employment law affecting Northern Irish employers.
Where do employers most commonly go wrong when they're planning the redundancies?
Seamus: The key thing for me is always back to that initial part of do you have a policy and procedure in place as to how you're going to deal with it? Often, within staff handbooks there will be a redundancy policy and procedure, but it will not be a definitive walkthrough process from start to finish as to how the redundancy works. It might be something at a very high level.
I think the starting point and the biggest mistake that I see is that people don't have a plan as to how they're going to work through the redundancies. They need to go to their policy
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