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.
How often would you suggest training your staff in the Dignity at Work Policy?
Seamus: I mean, I think that the training probably needs to happen annually. So whatever format the training is taking place in, whether it is an hour's training once a year to refresh everybody's memory in relation to expectations, dignity, rules around bullying and harassment, I think that there probably needs to be some form of annual training.
As regards your policies and procedures, they do need to be kept updated, they need to be kept fresh, and often they're marked that they'll be reviewed every 12 or 24 months.
There was a recent case there in England. I'll maybe speak about it later on just
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