Employment

Approach

Our Employment team prides itself on working closely with you, taking the time to understand your ethos, values and attitude towards employment issues. This approach enables us to help you to hire, nurture and retain employees who will benefit your business, allowing it to grow and evolve in the direction you need it to.

You will be allocated a lead solicitor to work with you on your HR projects, who will be supported by our large team of employment law solicitors and HR experts, ensuring that our advice is always accessible.

Our range of pricing structures, which includes a variety of annual fixed-hours packages, have been specifically developed to enable you to confidently budget for your legal advice. A summary of your used time will be provided each month so that you can internally monitor your usage and manage your expenditure accordingly.

You will also have access to a fully serviced, online document bank containing over 100 documents and templates that can be adapted for a range of scenarios within the employment relationship.

Employment

Experience

Our Employment team is well-established, with a strong reputation for providing commercial and pragmatic employment and HR support to a wide array of organisations, from family-run owner-managed businesses through to educational establishments and global PLCs.

We frequently advise our clients on contract and policy writing, disciplinaries, sickness and absence issues, capability issues, redundancies and restructures, unfair dismissal and discrimination claims, implementing and managing restrictive covenants, TUPE support and issuing bulk settlement agreements.

The diverse experience and expertise within the team enables us to advise on even the most complex of employment issues, including defending employers at employment tribunals involving protected disclosure and discrimination.

In addition, our solicitors routinely attend and support a number of our clients’ internal meetings including grievance and disciplinary hearings and are also able to assist with employee engagement activities to support retention and welfare in the workplace.

Services

We can help you with

Capability issues Disciplinary and grievances Employment contracts Employment policies and procedures Employment tribunal litigation Family-friendly rights Flexible working Recruitment Redundancies and restructures Restrictive covenants TUPE Terms and conditions of employment

Find a Legal Expert

Key contacts

Louise Easthope

Partner & Head of Employment

Beth Bearder

Senior Associate

Laura Evans

Associate

Martin Cornforth

Associate

Stephanie Cooper

Associate

Alpa Divecha-Kanji

Solicitor

Mark Honeybell

Client Relationship Manager

Our Clients

We work with...

Do you need assistance?

For more information and support, please contact us on 01332 226 149 or complete the form below.

Knowledge

The latest from our experts

Insight

How should employers deal with subject access requests?

An employee’s right to access data held about them has been a major part of data protection law since 1984, but updates within the 2018 Data Protection Act have

Event

Tuesday

November