Employment
When we can help
Our accessibility and commitment to our clients is very much our hallmark as is our practical, supportive advice giving specialist HR guidance in a commercially beneficial manner. We can help with:- employment tribunal claims
- staff contracts and handbooks
- dismissal, and grievance procedures
- discrimination including sex, age, race, disability, religion and belief and sexual orientation
- flexible working applications and arising claims
- internal restructuring and organisational change
- confidentiality matters and restrictive covenant litigation
- immigration (hiring from overseas)
- regulatory
- internal investigations
- criminal investigations
- whistleblowing issues and claims
We adopt a multi-disciplinary approach, so that all clients benefit from the firm's expertise, which covers an unusually diverse number of practice areas from business immigration to criminal and regulatory matters (professional discipline and FSA).
More about the team
The department is at the vanguard of employment debate. Richard Fox, head of the employment team is heavily involved with the national Employment Lawyers Association and is currently chairing its employment tribunal working party, meeting with the DBERR (formerly the DTI) to discuss employment developments in this area and co-ordinating views of employment lawyers up and down the country on the statutory dismissal procedures, and in relation to the DBERR's current review of employment dispute resolution legislation. The department also regularly participates in debate in the HR press contributing articles for magazines such as People Management and Personnel Today, as well as other sector specific press such as Real Business, Real FD and Travel Weekly.
We are involved in the Employment Forum on Age, the pre-eminent organisation for employers in preparing for the introduction of age discrimination legislation and its development through the course of its early years, making presentations to their annual conferences and contributing to debate through their publication, Working Age.
