{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f6db0ab2dc2346e2dd1a808/685a82367cd58072a5eff7ba?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"E250 That Great Business Show - What's our brilliant beauty product idea? - The Smooth Company, Aine and Billy Kennedy - Back to the office businesses say, but what do the courts say?   Peter Leonard BL","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f6db0ab2dc2346e2dd1a808/1750760075004-eccf67af-2138-4d83-a48b-ddb121399c45.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>E250</p><p>UCD Smurfit Business School Podcast of the Year</p><p>Aine Kennedy and Billy Kennedy, of the Smooth Company. Aine is a Tik Tok queen, with millions and millions of views, with help from GRANDAD Billy.</p><p>Aine doesn't hold back, she discusses her business journey, warts and all on her journey to 'world domination'.</p><p>She's stocked in Brown Thomas having entered a competition with the store, but she lost. But won. She explains.</p><p>Oh, she's looking for money,  but only smart money...like Emma Grede, co-founder of wonderbrand, Skims</p><p>Billy wants to hire Marc Rieu, son of Andre Rieu, who between them have built a music empire.</p><p><br></p><p>Working from home. Or not. It could be argued that law is about an interpretation of the rules, with the addition of precedent. </p><p>COVID sent us all office workers home from where many still continue to work and wish to work. But once we saw the Biggies like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan telling their staff to get back to the office we knew the jig was up...it was going to be 'back to the office' for the rest. But is it? Peter Leonard is a barrister and co-presenter of The Fifth Court and he joins us to explain the very latest from the courts and more particularly the WRC, the Workplace Relations Commission, where these issues are thrashed out on a regular basis.</p><p>His 'hire in a heartbeat',  HouseMartin's Paul Heaton</p>","author_name":"Conall Ó'Móráin"}