Since 2002, Public Affairs Ireland has been offering specialist bespoke training events – conferences, seminars, in-house training and accredited programmes – to professionals across the public sector. PAI is now seeking to recruit two Education and Training Administrators to join our expanding…
Edward Donelan’s book should be recommended reading for practitioners and students of regulatory governance – see Box 1. In producing this book, Donelan draws from varied experience as a barrister, a legislative drafter, an OECD advisor and as an independent…
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues are impacting increasingly on corporate governance agendas. The EU has been particularly active in this area. The pressures are not all positive. In recent times, there have been attempts to downgrade ESG issues. Both…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently published its preliminary statement on the Irish Economy, following the visit of its staff during the period 26 April 26 to 5 May 2022. The views expressed in the statement are those of the…
PAI are delighted to share a word from keynote speaker, Siobhán McKenna, ahead of our Annual HR Conference 2022: Building the Workforce of the Future – An Inclusive Approach to Talent Management Our HR conference 2022 will ensure our clients…
As we emerge from COVID19 restrictions, the world of work continues to evolve in a changing environment. Public sector HR professionals play a critical role in managing the challenges and opportunities that will arise as people return to the physical…
Ahead of PAI’s FREE webinar, ‘The Menopause Forum – Women in the Workplace‘, Speaker Nicola Wolfe has written this blog for those attending: ‘How do I know I am perimenopausal?’ There are several different symptoms to note as possible indicators…
Watching #Don’tLookUp, reading Twitter and the science can be a relentlessly negative experience. Working to engage businesses in #ClimateAction (as opposed to talking about it), I am often struck by how much progress Ireland has made since independence in 1922…
In my professional practice, a lot of my work focuses on dignity at work – through training, investigations, mediation, conflict resolution and providing advice. The right to dignity in the Irish workplace is underpinned by legal obligations that employers must…
As a HR professional a lot of my work involves providing advice and training on good practice employee relations to public sector HR professionals. Most grievance, disciplinary and dignity at work policies emphasise the importance of early interventions and alternative…
Prelude: This blog provides a background to the upcoming PAI Corporate Governance Course which starts on the 25th January 2022. It is in two parts – Part 1 republishes a blog that I wrote in August 2016 to coincide with the launch…