Employment

Employment law is constantly changing as case law and UK and EU social policy evolves. We work with clients on proactive reviews of their employment policy to ensure they adopt up-to-the-minute employment practices. We produce imaginative and practical responses to the impact of new law on our clients' businesses.

We advise on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious employment matters, including:

• collective redundancies, employee consultations and alternatives to redundancy
  
• terms of engagement of employees - especially key senior personnel
  
• corporate governance, including phased payments and avoiding rewards for failure
• dismissal of employees and employment disputes, including breach of contract and restrictive covenants
  
• strands of discrimination, equal pay and the increasingly regulated areas of working time, health and safety and 'family-friendly' policies
  
• impact of EU legislation on UK employment matters
  
• review of clients' employment practices and policy
  
• employment aspects of acquisitions and disposals especially in relation to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE)
• flotations and all commercial transactions including outsourcing/insourcing and restructurings on insolvency
  

We regularly prepare cases for the Employment Tribunal and High Court and have taken cases to the Court of Appeal. Where appropriate our lawyers represent the client at the Tribunal.

The majority of employment disputes settle prior to a hearing and so the group has considerable experience in negotiating settlements and resolutions.