Employment Law
Our Employment Department advises employers and employees on both contentious and non-contentious employment issues. We strive to make sure our clients are up-do-date on the ever-changing laws relating to employment and industrial relations and so prevent legal issues before arise.
Our non-contentious advice includes:
- Changing terms and conditions, business transfers and TUPE
- Maternity and parental leave rights.
- Contracts for directors, consultants, employees, casuals, temps
- Directors’service agreements
- Due diligence,indemnities and warranties in sale agreements
- Handbooks and procedures
- Partnershiplaw
- Compromise agreements
- Redundancy.
On the more contentious side we provide advice, including arbitration, mediation and litigation, in the following areas:
- Constructive, unfair and wrongful dismissal
- Redundancy
- Hours of work, holiday entitlement and sick pay
- Disability, race, sex and same-sex discrimination
- Contracts and Conditions of Service for employees, directors and consultants, including e.g. how far it is legal to restrict ex-employees’ ability to set up in competition with their former employers
- Industrial relations including injunctions enforcing restrictive covenants and restraining industrial action
- Internal disciplinary issues
- Negotiating compensation packages
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