Employment
Personnel issues are more important to businesses than ever before. Whether you're a FTSE-100 multinational with a large in-house employment legal team, a small business or an individual, our team can give you practical and commercial advice.
Employment advice commonly extends to corporate strategy and reputation, and we recognise that our advice needs to align with your business objectives. We take the time to get to know you so we can proactively add value to your business.
Our clients represent a wide cross-section of businesses, including leading players from across the aviation, property, retail and entertainment sectors. Much of our work has an international dimension, with our clients also including many US and Asian corporations.
We can assist on:
- Complex restructurings involving large-scale redundancy and harmonising terms and conditions
- Employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions
- Retention and removal of executives and various corporate governance issues in general and in corporate transactions
- Managing high-value and high-reputation risk litigation
- Preparing, attending and undertaking employment litigation (including advocacy) in employment tribunals and the High Court on all employment-related claims, including whistle-blowing, complex discrimination cases, restrictive covenants and part-time workers' pension claims
- Drafting/updating the full range of employment documents including terms and conditions of employment, diversity policies, disciplinary and grievance policies and company handbooks
- Employment aspects of outsourcing and offshoring of IT and customer service roles
- Extensive training for clients on best practice in recruitment, selection and promotion and correct discipline, grievance and dismissal procedures