L02 - Restrictions in Employment Contracts
The purpose of this course is to provide practitioners with guidelines for the drafting of clauses in contracts of employment with a view to limiting the damage that can be done if a key employee ceases working for an employer and seeks to compete with that employer in the market place.

Course authors: Michael MacNamee, B.L. & Dominic Wilkinson     Cost: €149.00

About the authors:

Michael MacNamee B.C.L., A.C.I.I., A.C.I.Arb., Accredited Mediator, Barrister-at Law
Michael MacNamee is a practising barrister specialising in employment law, equality law and industrial relations. He appears on behalf of employers and employees before the Employment Appeals Tribunal, The Equality Tribunal, The Labour Court and Rights Commissioners as well as in the Circuit and High Courts. A trained mediator accredited by the Bar Council, he mediates and arbitrates employment disputes as well as undertaking formal workplace investigations. A former lecturer in employment law at King’s Inns, Michael delivers professional training in the handling of employment issues to a wide range of employers and institutions. He was educated at University College Dublin and King’s Inns. He lives in Dublin and practises throughout Ireland.

Dominic Wilkinson Barrister-at-Law, FCIArb, FCIPD, MIITD
Dominic Wilkinson is a practising Barrister and also works as a Human Resources Management Consultant. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and is a Member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development. He holds post graduate qualifications in Law, Human Resource Management and Arbitration Law and Practice. He has worked with a range of organisations both in the public and private sector in Ireland and the UK. He has developed an expertise in employment law; employee and industrial relations; policy and procedure review/ audit, design and development; workplace investigations and report writing into complaints by employees of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment as well as performance related matters; process reviews; redundancy programmes; communication and consultation; trade union relationship management; change management; organisational restructuring; recruitment and selection; performance management. He also has specialist knowledge of methods of alternative dispute resolution including mediation in the workplace/ employment and civil and commercial matters, arbitration and conciliation.