Michael Grealy appointed HR director at Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus has announced the appointment of Michael Grealy as Director of Human Resources and Organisational Change. Grealy, a native of Galway and graduate of Trinity College Dublin will take up his new position on September 28 next.
Michael Grealy was former Head of Group Human Resources at Bank of Ireland where he earned the reputation of being a hardliner with the banking unions. He was key to the reform of the BoI pension scheme when the bank sought to replace the defined benefit scheme with a defined contribution scheme for new recruits. After protracted negotiations over an 18 month period which included strike action being threatened by the unions the two sides signed a deal which introduced a composite scheme for new employees.
Prior to joining BoI, Michael Grealy held senior PR positions in Boston Scientific and Seagate Technology.
Announcing the appointment, Aer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller said that the airline was facing a 'very challenging period' and that it was 'clear that the Aer Lingus of the future must be very different from the Aer Lingus of the past'. He further added that Grealy would be 'a key member of the senior management team which is focused on making the necessary changes to the way we do business'.