As you would expect from an employment practice, our team provides advice on all aspects of employment law including:

• advocacy
• all forms of dispute resolution including mediation
• employee benefits including share incentive schemes and tax advice
• change management
• contracts, policies and procedures and employee handbooks
• data protection and freedom of information
• equal pay
• equal opportunities and discrimination claims including age discrimination
• European regulations and directives
• flexible working
• harassment and bullying
• health and safety
• human rights
• HR issues including disciplinary and grievance hearings
• ill health and absence management
• immigration
• industrial relations, trade union recognition and collective bargaining issues
• information and consultation
• insolvency issues
• maternity, paternity and parental leave
• new and impending legislation
• partnerships
• pensions and retirement policies
• performance management
• recruitment issues
• redundancies
• reorganisations including mergers and acquisitions
• representation in employment tribunals and other courts up to the House of Lords
• restrictive covenants
• senior executive appointments and terminations
• tax issues
• terms and conditions of employment including harmonisation and changes
• transfers of undertakings (TUPE)
• working time policies
• works councils
• wrongful and unfair dismissal