Orlagh O'Neill is a Partner and Head of the Employment Team at Carson McDowell Solicitors in Belfast. She advises mainly employer clients on a wide range of employment issues and acts for some of Northern Ireland's largest employers. Her education clients include universities, regional colleges and a number of voluntary grammars. This year Chambers and Partners Guide to the Legal Profession ranked Orlagh as Band One for Education. She is a committee member and Chair of the Employment Lawyers Group of Northern Ireland, a member of both the UK and Irish Employment Law Groups (ELA and ELAI) and a regular speaker at annual employment law update conferences.
Green issues such as sustainability and corporate & social responsibility are increasingly important to employee engagement. Some employees take these issues more seriously that others and we asked the employment team at Carson McDowell to consider this question:
Our organisation is supportive of employees adopting “green” and environmentally friendly practices in the workplace. After all, it saves money as well as reducing our carbon footprint. However, one employee in particular is taking it to extremes and this is causing problems with his colleagues, whom he berates on an almost daily basis over their personal choices (mode of transport to work, number of cars in their households, eating meat, holidaying abroad, the extent of their recycling and so on).
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