Employment

Whether you are an organisation, business owner, senior executive or professional adviser we will help you untangle employment and immigration issues. Where these areas of legal advice are constantly changing, we use our exceptional breadth and depth of expertise to ensure you receive personalised advice to effectively manage risks and realise the opportunities in your people strategies.

We understand that employers with international operations need to manage risks and maximise the opportunities in their people strategies whilst complying with the laws of multiple jurisdictions. Using our network of offices in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia where we have employment lawyers on the ground advising on local laws, or working with our Global Network of firms covering almost 200 jurisdictions worldwide, we can project manage international advice or introduce you directly to leading employment lawyers where you need them.

We specialise in advising on unfair dismissal, redundancy, settlement and compromise agreements, executive dismissals and departures and a wide range of disciplinary and grievance issues, including discrimination of all types from equal pay to disability, age, race and gender claims.

We can help you with:

• Recruitment issues, drafting contracts and policies
• Disciplinary and grievance matters
• Workplace investigations
• Workplace audits
• Business transfers and TUPE implications
• Restructuring and redundancies, including collective consultation
• Restrictive covenants, team moves and injunctive procedures in the High Court
• Employment tribunal claims
• Harassment
• Capability and performance processes and outcomes
• Ill health and disability related challenges
• Protected disclosures (whistleblowing)

If you’re a small business managing your own staff, a large business with a HR Department, or a multi-national company, we have the expertise and experience to help you. If you need support in negotiating a settlement, defending an Employment Tribunal claim, assistance with a restructuring or redundancy process, drafting employment contracts or policies, pensions advice, immigration queries or advice on the application of TUPE, we’re here to help. We have the people, the skills and the knowledge to assist you as your business adapts and changes.

We will get to know you and the employment issues you are facing, then discuss the best approach to help support you and your business. To help employers, we offer initial consultations at no cost through our employment law clinic. We can also offer a range of bespoke training to clients, covering employment and HR matters.

• Discrimination and equality
• Tribunal and court representation
• Contracts and policies
• Absence and performance management
• Discipline and grievance including dismissals
• Change Management
• Brexit queries
• Mediation