By signing up to the Charter, you can help change the narrative around mental health and wellbeing for lawyers in Ireland.

Professional Wellbeing Charter

The Professional Wellbeing Charter offers firms the opportunity to work towards creating a positive workplace culture and sends a message to employees that their wellbeing is valued. It can also facilitate in attracting and retaining talented people.

By signing the Charter, you pledge to lead, uphold and promote the Charter commitments to improve professional wellbeing in your workplace. 

Charter commitments

Signatories affirm that they will:

• work to create a healthy workplace culture characterised by behaviours and practices that promote effective communication and active listening, so the office experience is one of trust, respect, honesty, fairness, compassion and psychological safety,
• build an environment where leaders promote professional wellbeing and take appropriate action to protect employees’ mental health including holding unprofessional behaviours to account, with consequences,
• work to reduce stigma associated with mental health in the workplace,
• build employee and management capacity to support employees’ psychological and mental health concerns and be able to respond effectively to these as needed,
• strive to create a work environment where tasks and responsibilities can be accomplished within a realistic timeframe that promotes work/life balance,
• encourage and support employees in the development of their social and emotional needs, as well as their job skills,
• nurture a work environment where employees derive a sense of meaning and purpose from their work and are appropriately recognised and rewarded for their work efforts, and
• ensure policies, procedures and processes are in place that safeguard employee psychological safety and mental health.

Sign up
The Law Society of Ireland has been a proud signatory to the Charter since its inception. You can join us using the links below.

• Find out more and sign the Charter

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This article originally appeared in the 23 February Member eZine. For more information, and to subscrive, visit eNewsletters.