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.
Q: Are we within our rights to take disciplinary action against an employee who is breaching the COVID restrictions whilst they are not at work?
Scott: "We employ care assistants and have informed them that we expect them to act in an appropriate manner in line with the restrictions so as not to put anyone in their care at risk". In the situation here is the employer saying, look, we're sticking by our part. We've got vulnerable people in our care, as well as employees who could catch it and so on. But we know that there are certain people who are going out there and they're going to parties or whatever at the weekend, and they're not being
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