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.
What does the law in Northern Ireland say about what an employer’s responsibility when harassment or bullying occurs?
Seamus: Well, look, those are the two main types of offences that we see. They tend to be the bullying and the harassment, and that can come in the form of any of our protected characteristics that are set out within our legislation.
So, the one that mainly comes that you think about is sort of arising via sex discrimination and harassment, bullying, victimisation arising as a result of sex discrimination, generally where there's a male offender and a female victim. It's not always that way. I'm generalising about a lot of the cases that you look online and see that arise.
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