Employment, Pensions & Employee Benefits

Susan Battye is based in our Ireland office where she is a partner and head of the employment practice.

Susan has over two decades' experience advising employers on the full life cycle of employment.  Her advisory experience includes: corporate restructuring and redundancies, employment support in M&A transactions, outsourcing and transfers of undertakings, secondment arrangements, executive remuneration requirements, harmonising employee benefits and entitlements, compliance projects, drafting employment contracts for regulated functions, grievance and disciplinary procedures, updating staff handbooks, HR policies and codes of conduct, hybrid and flexible arrangements, working time and right to disconnect projects, managing whistleblowing claims, internal investigations, and providing employment law training.

She has significant experience in resolving complex disputes, including bonus claims, breach of confidentiality clauses, enforcement of post-termination restrictions.  Susan has represented clients before the Workplace Relations Commission, including defending unfair dismissals, constructive dismissals, discrimination claims, whistleblowing and penalisation claims, workplace bullying and stress-related claims, industrial relations disputes and employment injunctions before the High Court.  Susan also provides strategic advice on managing the legal, commercial and reputational risks of implementing senior executive terminations, severance negotiations, and drafting settlement agreements.

Prior to joining Walkers, Susan was a partner in a leading Dublin law firm.

Susan is a member of the Law Society’s Employment & Equality Law Committee and has tutored employment law on the Law Society’s Professional Practice Course.

Susan is also a member of the Employment Law Association of Ireland, European Employment Lawyers Association and the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association.

Qualifications: BCL, University College Dublin LLM in Computers and Law, Queen's University of Belfast Law Society of Ireland Diploma in Employment Law, University College Dublin