IRN Conference 2014 Date Thursday, March 13th, 2014

Start 8.30am sharp

Venue O’Reilly Hall, UCD

Turning the corner – challenges for industrial and employment relations

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Cork & Galway The IRN conference 2014 will focus on critical challenges timetable facing IR and HR practitioners in Ireland today as we face 7.30: Registration & Tea/Coffee into a period of economic 8.30: Conference opens - Introduction of conference chair recovery. Can we meet Ingrid Miley INDUSTRY CORRESPONDENT, RTÉ. the constant demand for change while enhancing 8.35: Workplace Relations Reform competitiveness, at a time of slowly rising expectations? Workplace Relations Reform: streamlining the State’s How we deal with these dispute resolution agencies. linked questions – at local Kieran Mulvey, Chief Executive, Labour Relations Commission. Caroline Jenkinson, Deputy Chairman, Labour Court. and national levels – is vitally What is the thinking behind the new Workplace Relations Commission and how will it affect IR and important for all our futures. HR practitioners? In addition, how is the Government’s proposed legislation on collective bargaining likely to play out? Looking at these issues will be two players at the centre of the new system. The IRN conference will address Questions & Answers these questions by presenting a combination of experts in their respective fields and a 10.00: Legal Update number of case studies. The Jennifer Cashman, Ronan Daly Jermyn Solicitors (Cork and Galway). day will range over employment Jennifer will review the most recent key employment law developments and will focus on the law, dispute resolution, pay most important legal decisions of the last 12 months and on new and anticipated legislation for and pensions, human resource 2014. Jennifer will aim to give practical advice on how these new changes impact on the public and private sectors. management, trade union strategies – all important issues Questions & Answers for IR & HR professionals as they 10.45: Tea & Coffee seek to adapt in response to external pressures. 11.15: Case studies on major change ‘Operation Orthopaedic South: The HR challenges in the reconfiguration of acute hospital services’. Conference Chair Barry O’Brien, National Director of Human Resources, HSE. Ingrid Miley is Industry and The Programme for Government promises the most fundamental reform of our health services in Employment Correspondent the history of the State. Public hospitals will be reorganised into more efficient and accountable for RTE. In this capacity she is groups that will harness the benefits of increased independence and a greater control at local level. responsible for TV and radio Only large-scale change can deliver this sort of fundamental reform. Barry O’Brien’s presentation coverage of news stories on on HSE South will highlight how the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements have allowed various aspects of employment for the delivery of major change in a complex environment. and industrial relations in Ireland. Ingrid has also worked 12.00: ‘Merging pay & conditions at MSD - the IR story explained’. on Today Tonight, Prime Time and Market Place. She holds Kieran Dunne, HR Director at MSD and Alan O’Leary, SIPTU Sector Organiser. an honours BA in French and Barry and Alan will describe how MSD in Ireland and SIPTU negotiated the harmonisation of pay and German from Trinity College conditions for over 2,000 employees, following the international merger of Merck and Schering Plough. and an MA in Translation and The scale of the task is illustrated by the fact they had to manage nine different pension schemes, Linguistics from the University seven bonus structures, four profit share schemes and a variety of annual leave arrangements. of New Brunswick. She qualified Sustaining competitiveness, while ensuring equity, were critical features of this achievement. as a barrister in 2003. Questions & Answers Queen’sUniversityBelfast. 2.50: the privatesector. subscribers andCIPDmemberfirms.Thiswilltelluswhattheoutlookisforpayin Presentedby:MikeMcDonnell,angingirectorCIPD. 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IRN Conference 2014 March 13th O’Reilly Hall, UCD name Post Julie Colby, IRN Publishing, job title 123 Ranelagh, Turning the corner – Dublin 6 organisation challenges for industrial and employment relations address for telephone, fax and email bookings: Tel Julie Colby on 01 497 2711 Fax 01 497 2779 conference fee: IRN Subscribers c 395 Non-Subscribers c 425 tel Email [email protected] cheques payable to: IRN Publishing Limited Email at a number of universities and an external examiner for several HR degree/ postgraduate programmes in Ireland and the UK. Mike is a past president of about the speakers the European Association of People Management (EAPM).

Maeve McElwee, Head of HR/IR Operations, Ibec. Maeve assumed her current Oonagh Buckley, Assistant Secretary in the Department of Public position in 2013, after joining the Ibec IR/HR Division in 2000. Over the course Expenditure & Reform. Oonagh has responsibility for Remuneration, of her career in Ibec she has held the position of Director of the North East Industrial Relations and Pensions. She has been centrally involved in Region and more recently was Head of IR/HR - Traded Services. Prior to joining the major developments in public service industrial relations over the Ibec, she worked with the World Bank in Washington D.C. last 5 years. Prior to joining the Department in 2008, she worked in the Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government, latterly as a Kieran Mulvey, Chief Executive, Labour Relations Commission. He is a former Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Oonagh is a barrister General Secretary of the ASTI and Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT). with a background in European studies. Kieran has also acted as a consultant with the EU and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on matters relating to public management, human resources Jennifer Cashman is Head of Employment Law at Ronan Daly Jermyn. and industrial relations. He chaired the negotiations which led to the Croke Park Jennifer has over 15 years’ experience in advising and guiding clients on the Agreement and played a central role in securing the Haddington Road Agreement. practical application of all aspects of employment law. Jennifer’s focus is on providing practical and commercial solutions to her clients, which comprise Sheila Nunan, General Secretary, Irish National Teachers Organisation local authorities, semi-state bodies, schools, multi-nationals and SMEs. Sheila Nunan has been General Secretary of the INTO since 2009. She has been a member of the executive of the union since 1995 and was INTO President in Peter Cassells, Executive Director, Edward M Kennedy Institute for 2005/2006. Sheila is a former primary school teacher and principal. She taught in Conflict Intervention, NUI Maynooth. Peter is a former General Secretary of Tallaght and in Bray. She is a graduate of UCD and St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Board Member, IDA Ireland. He was instrumental in advocating and delivering on the early social partnership Alan O’Leary, SIPTU Sector Organiser. Alan has represented both public programmes, which are strongly associated with Ireland’s gradual and private sector workers in many general and specialist union branches economic recovery in the 1980s and into the 1990s. in the Munster region. From 2000 he was responsible for the Administrative Professional and Technical Branch (APT) and Sector Organiser since 2006. In Kieran Dunne, HR Director, MSD. Kieran has been with MSD since 2010, 2010, Alan took up the role of National Sector Organiser for the strategically firstly as the Brinny Site HR Director and subsequently as the HR Director important Pharmaceutical Chemical and Medical Devices sector (PCMD), for Ireland. Kieran is academically qualified in both HR and Supply Chain establishing a highly successful collective bargaining pay model – “Stability Management, having performed senior strategic roles in both disciplines, and Pay Pacts” – with employers now covering over 11,000 sector members. A delivering real value to the bottom line of all employers. Kieran also has graduate of University of Limerick Kemmy Business School (KBS) and UCD, Alan a mixed industrial background, having worked with WH Smith, An Post, has primarily studied the fields of HRM and Trade Union Studies with particular KPMG Consulting, Ibec and the C&C Group Plc (Bulmers Ltd) before joining interest in the development of innovation and stakeholder bargaining. MSD. Kieran has a particular interest in change management, industrial relations, employment law and leadership development. Barry O’Brien, National Director HR, HSE. Barry was a lead negotiator on the Government side for both the Croke Park and Haddington Road Agreements. Gerry McCormack, Divisional Organiser (Manufacturing), SIPTU. As head of HR in HSE, he has overall responsibility for the health sector, Gerry, a miner by trade, has represented a wide variety of SIPTU which is the largest public sector employer in the country (over 100,000 staff). members in the private sector for almost 15 years. He was appointed Barry has been centrally involved in the amalgamation of three hospitals into as industrial official in Cavan (1995) and appointed Branch Secretary Cork University Maternity Hospital and in a number of other major service of the Monaghan Branch in 1995. Subsequently, he was appointed restructuring initiatives with the health service. He was also the lead executive Branch Secretary of SIPTU’s Cavan Branch before becoming the union’s for the negotiation and implementation of a new contract of employment National Industrial Secretary (Private Sector). Gerry has a diploma in covering 2,500 medical consultants in the public health system. business studies and HR management. Caroline Jenkinson was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Labour Court Dr ANTHONY McDONNELL is a Reader/Associate Professor at Queen’s in September 1998. Prior to her appointment Caroline was Head of Employee University Belfast, Director of the Centre for Irish Business and Economic Relations Information in IBEC, where she worked for more than 20 years. As Deputy Performance and is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Chairman she adjudicates on employment rights and industrial relations matters Journal. Prior to this, he was employed at the University of South Australia between employers and workers. Caroline is a psychology graduate from UCD and and University of Newcastle (Australia). He has published widely on HRM and holds a postgraduate diploma in employment law from the Law Faculty UCD. IR issues in MNCs operating in different host countries, and more recently on organisational engagement in talent management.

Mike McDonnell, MD, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Ireland (CIPD). Under Mike’s direction, CIPD Ireland has grown from 500 to over 5,000 members. Prior to joining CIPD, he worked in a number of HR roles with Adams Foods in the UK and as head of corporate affairs with the NRB. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, Mike is a graduate of the University of Limerick and has an MSc in HRM Leadership from Sheffield Hallam University. He has been a visiting lecturer in people management About the IRN Conference The annual IRN conference has established itself as one of the main events for employment relations professionals in Ireland since it was first held in 1994. Speakers have included leading human resource management and industrial relations professionals from industry, the public sector, trade unions and academia. The attendance broadly reflects the composition of IRN’s readership, which is split evenly between the private and public sectors and between those engaged in traditional IR or more sophisticated HR approaches to employment relations. The conference presents an excellent opportunity for networking and discussion between professionals, experts and anyone interested in the field of employment relations.