Services

Advice on (amongst other things):

• recruitment – advertising, interviewing and inductions
• performance management – appraisals and reviews
• retention – personal development, mentoring, coaching and incentive schemes
• disciplinary procedures – managing sickness absence, poor performance and misconduct
• grievance procedures – when they apply and how they should be managed
• redundancies – managing redundancy programmes
• dismissal – handling termination of employment – minimising the risk of claims
• discrimination – minimising the risk of claims
• business sales and acquisitions – due diligence
• restructures – devising and managing the change process
• transfer of undertakings – outsourcing – the effects of TUPE
• restrictive covenants – breach and enforcement
• family friendly working arrangements – contract variation requests
• temporary working arrangements – workers’ rights
• working time – holiday and sickness issues
• data protection – obligations – subject access requests
• safeguarding – confidential information and trade secrets
• health and safety – risk assessments
• industrial relations – dealing with union recognition – collective bargaining
• IR35 – assessment

Drafting:

• employment contracts
• service agreements
• consultancy agreements
• settlement agreements
• COT3s
• staff handbooks
• policies
• response forms and grounds of resistance
• appeal forms and grounds of appeal

Representation:

• defending all employment tribunal claims by employees and ex-employees
• prosecuting claims of breach of contract (eg restrictive covenants and confidentiality)
• appeals (eg Employment Appeal Tribunal, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court)