Leading Employment Advice for Businesses

We advise organisations on how to deal with employment processes and issues legally but also ethically. Specifically:

• Ensuring your contracts of employment, policies, handbooks etc. include ethical extras which create a workplace where your staff feel their welfare and the work environment are dominant considerations for the company;

• How to manage restructures and redundancies in a sensitive yet effective manner to ensure staff are treated fairly so that morale and productively are not negatively impacted;

• Providing training to managers to identify red flags and help avoid bad practices and a negative work culture;

• Advising on day-to-day HR and people issues and procedures (grievances, disciplinaries etc.) procedures with ethical plating – focused on achieving positive outcomes for all parties.

• Assisting with early/informal resolutions of disputes to avoid escalation and ensure a healthy and productive working relationship.

Successfully defended claims for discrimination and unfair dismissal

The claim was brought by an employee who felt aggrieved after being dismissed by a start-up company. We were able to persuasively present the case which demonstrated that the dismissal was neither discriminatory, nor unfair. Had the claims succeeded, the business could have gone into administration and so the result was extremely well received by the business.

Achieving a commercial resolution in the face of a complex TUPE situation

We advised a sub-contractor on their TUPE obligations when their contract was taken back in-house on short notice by the main contractor, particularly in relation to dealing with employees where there was a dispute as to whether they were assigned to the service being taken back in-house. We helped our client achieve a commercial resolution.