Our collaborative team is focused on understanding your business and delivering quality, pragmatic advice to clients nationally.
We offer innovative, practical, and commercially focused solutions to complex HR challenges, covering both contentious and non-contentious matters at the highest level. Our team collaborates with in-house legal teams, HR professionals, senior leadership, and corporate boards to support businesses across the full spectrum of employment and industrial relations issues in Ireland.
We are recognised for our collaborative and strategic approach, working closely with colleagues in related fields such as pensions, employee incentives, data protection, and corporate crime. This ensures our clients receive comprehensive, well-structured, and timely advice from leading experts across multiple disciplines.
Our specialists provide expert guidance on:
- Everyday employment law concerns
- Employment disputes, litigation, and mediation
- HR investigations
- Drafting and implementing employment contracts and policies
- Industrial relations and collective bargaining
- Crisis management situations
- Employment aspects of corporate transactions and outsourcing
- Regulatory employment issues, including remuneration frameworks
- Corporate immigration
- Health and safety compliance
- Whistleblowing cases
- Data protection and privacy matters
Excello’s legal services include:
Labor Management Relations:
- Union avoidance and decertification
- Union election campaigns and contract negotiations
- Handling unfair labor practices and lockouts
- Developing strike contingency plans and seeking injunctions
- Pursuing damage suits for illegal strikes
- Administering labor contracts, overseeing arbitration, and managing employee participation committees
Employment Termination:
- Handling layoffs, reductions-in-force, and wrongful discharge claims
- Addressing work relocation and plant closings, including compliance with WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) advance notice requirements
Employment Policies Development and Litigation:
- Crafting policies on wage and hour matters, drug and alcohol testing, no-smoking initiatives, and health-related issues such as AIDS and communicable diseases
- Advising on disabilities, family and medical leave, and implementing disciplinary and grievance procedures
Employment Contracts and Agreements:
- Drafting employment contracts and confidentiality/noncompete agreements
Immigration Enforcement and Compliance:
- Assisting with business visas, permanent residency, citizenship applications, and deportation litigation
Occupational Safety and Health Compliance:
- Ensuring compliance with occupational safety and health regulations
Legislative Advocacy and Testimony:
- Analyzing legislation, preparing legislative testimony, and engaging in legislative matters
Wage and Hour Compliance:
- Addressing issues related to overtime, FLSA exemptions, conciliation, and remedial actions
- Ensuring compliance with the Service Contract Act and prevailing wage standards