Employment law for businesses
Employees are often a company’s most valuable asset. Looking after them makes commercial sense. Our top ranking employment lawyers can help you do just that.
We take a strategic and commercial approach to the legal advice provided across all areas of employment. Our employment solicitors help you navigate changes to employment law. If disputes occur, we’ll be by your side and backing your cause.
Who we work with
Our specialist employment law for business team advises businesses owners, executive level managers, HR directors and managers at mid-market corporations and smaller SMEs.
Your problems, solved
It is essential companies keep up to date on changes to employment law and remain compliant at all times. As highly experienced employment solicitors, we can help you meet your legal obligations, designed to protect your business and your employees.
When disputes arise, we can help protect your business from potential employment claims, such as discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal. We guide employers through investigations, redundancy, disciplinary and grievance processes to minimise the risk of claims.
We advise employers on how to implement decisions and changes involving their staff, in order to minimise legal risk and disruption.
If your business has limited in-house resource, we can assist in dealing with the day to day employment issues.
How our employment lawyers can help your business
- Deal with misconduct and absence issues
- Handle disciplinary and grievances - the investigation and steps to follow
- Conduct employee redundancies without facing claims
- Improve equality and diversity and defend against #metoo, bullying and discrimination claims.
- Upskill your HR team on the basics of employing an employee in England
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Our employment law experience
Supported Holiday Extras with the management of HR issues relating to the Covid-19 pandemic and the gradual reopening of the travel sector.
Provided employment advice to Berry Gardens in relation to the sale of its sales, packaging and distribution entity, Berry Gardens Limited, which was acquired by Driscoll’s.
Negotiated the employment contracts relating to Uniguest’s latest acquisition of MediaStar Systems and negotiated a change of role and terms and conditions for a senior employee.
Provided complex advice and support to Cadogan on employment status / IR35, agency workers, holiday pay and TUPE in relation to its acquisition of membership interest in The Draycott Hotel LLP.
Successfully defended a sex discrimination claim on behalf of a software developer company.
Provided advice to a pharmaceutical company in relation to disciplinary proceedings and the dismissal of a senior employee.
Advised a cross border luxury brand on successfully defending unfair dismissal and sex discrimination claims before the English and French employment tribunals.
Advised financial services brokerage business on the restructuring and renegotiation of their contractual arrangements to ensure compliance with the IR35 regime
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