{"id":143344,"date":"2025-05-30T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143344\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:56:12","slug":"change-must-come-from-top-employment-lawyer-rosemary-connolly-reacts-to-sinn-feins-hr-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143344\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Change must come from top\u2019: Employment lawyer Rosemary Connolly reacts to Sinn Fein\u2019s HR overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rosemary Connolly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-9d3d-df0c68715c5a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rosemary Connolly<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An expert in employment law has said Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s sweeping HR reforms represent \u201ca significant time commitment\u201d but are ultimately \u201cwell worth it\u201d\u2014if the culture shift is genuine and led from the top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rosemary Connolly, head of her own law firm and a specialist in employment rights, was responding to Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s announcement of a major governance overhaul following the fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/northern-ireland\/lessons-around-mcmonagle-employment-can-be-learned-by-all-says-oneill\/a2140457939.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael McMonagle scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosemary Connolly An expert in employment law has said Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s sweeping HR reforms represent \u201ca significant time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,1249,680,61916,11528,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-kurtis-reid","11":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","12":"tag-michelle-gildernew","13":"tag-sinn-fein","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}