Employment law for businesses

If you are looking to down-size, make redundancies or manage employee departures, we can advise how best to achieve the outcome required, to reduce your risk and help you to manage this process.

When you are refreshing your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI )strategy or faced with allegations of harassment or discrimination, our experienced team of employment lawyers can support your organisation and provide you with practical advice to help manage claims and minimise your risk.

We support employers of all sizes to implement dismissals (redundancy, misconduct, illness absence) so you can reduce the risk of claims and expense of litigation.

At Cripps we are experienced in guiding organisations through the legal steps and making sure your policies work for your organisation.

We can assist you to set up incentive plans to help retain your people and advise on the meaning of schemes when you have leavers.

Employee Ownership Trusts can improve productivity and profitability. We can support you to put Employee Ownership Trusts in place.

We can advise you on the options when you need staff in a location where you don’t have an entity and need a local employer to employ your employees for you. We can negotiate the arrangements with an employer of record on your behalf.

Our employment lawyers are experts at defending claims by employees, such as unpaid wages, unfair dismissal, discrimination or whistle-blowing.

We can tailor training to upskill your people, quickly on-board new joiners, deal with tricky situations and prepare your organisation for change. We can provide training to help your staff:

• 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

We can support you when you receive requests for data and help interpret the impact of data protection rules on your organisation.

We can support your business on a day to day basis and with complex issues, providing the supporting documentation you need, as part of a retainer or other arrangements.

Our expert employment team can conduct investigations for you, to minimise disruption and ensure a robust report is prepared.

Our team of employment lawyers are experienced in advising on staff transfers and when Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) applies.

We support employers to make large and small numbers of redundancies, preparing the supporting documentation, to reduce the risk of claims and expense of litigation.

We take action to protect your business interests and advise you whether the obligations on the employees you want to hire are a problem.

We are experienced in assisting organisations to make changes in the most cost effective and low risk way.

We support organisations to prepare separation agreements and negotiate the terms of departure with its employees.

Our experienced employment lawyers can deal with and consult trade unions to ensure all legal requirements are met.

We can audit the status of your people, their entitlements and any liabilities, whether you are facing claims or buying or selling a business.