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.
So in your discussion, Seamus, you mentioned trigger points in your policy. What do you mean by that? What is a trigger point, why are important and for what type of event should they be used?
Seamus: I think there was some confusion around that, but the triggers that I was focussing on during my seminar were really in relation to often you'll see within policies and procedures that deal with long-term absence, or absence in general, that there are certain time points that will trigger action by the employer in relation to the employee that has been on absence.
I think it's a good idea that certainly the expectation would be that you would have a record of
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