Employment

Our specialist services

Our team provides a range of services dealing with all aspects of employment law.  Our employment practice ranges across the bandwidth of employment matters, from ongoing HR training and advisory work, through to large-scale employment projects and change management programmes as well as including all aspects of contentious and non–contentious employment law.

• Mass settlement agreements
• Data Subject Access Requests
• Employment Retainer Package
• Pensions & employee benefits
• HR Projects – restructures/TUPE transfers/changing terms and conditions
• HR investigations – whistleblowing/bullying and harassment/disciplinary and grievances
• Absence management
• Advice on legislation, relevant case law, best practice guidance
• Defending employment tribunal claims, including all preparation and advocacy
• Dispute resolution and mediation
• Drafting contracts, contractual disputes and implementation of contractual changes
• Expert advice on atypical working i.e. part time and fixed term employees
• HR policies and procedures
• Managing diversity – ensuring compliance, best practice and resolving conflicts
• Managing risk of dismissal processes
• Redundancies, restructuring and change management
• Stress and bullying claims

Our expertise extends to specialist areas of employment law including:

• TUPE
• Industrial relations and collective bargaining
• Equal pay
• Data protection/GDPR
• Complex employment tribunal litigation
• Business Immigration
• Investigations

Why use us?

We offer our HJ “How to” HR training academy to our clients providing training on a range of topics including how to manage a DSAR, how to conduct disciplinary and grievances, how to undertake right to work checks, how to undertake gender pay gap reporting, how to hold a protected conversation and more.

We regularly provide our clients with updates regarding new or forthcoming legislation, relevant case law and topical issues via e-bulletins, vlogs, blogs, webinars, seminars, roundtable groups and conferences.

Our team offers HR Consultancy support and provides you with the option of a Legal Expenses Insurance product, underwritten by ARAG, which provides you with absolute cover in the case of an Employment Tribunal claim.

We are skilled in understanding your company culture and adept at adapting advice accordingly. We consider that our ‘unique selling point’ is finding the right employment law solutions for you, taking into account your values, culture and risk appetite. We enjoy building long-lasting relationships and sharing in your success.  Many clients tell us that the ability to seek our advice as a “sounding board” is something they really value, providing confidence when making difficult decisions or navigating complex processes.  Always solution-focused, we use our many years’ experience to reach the right outcome for your organisation, understanding the commercial implications and what is important for you.

How we act for our clients

We will meet formally with you at the outset of our working relationship to discuss the operation of the contract between us, set milestones to review our performance, and discuss the initial instruction, the options available to you, anticipated costs and practical next steps.  Once matters are underway we would regularly seek feedback on our service delivery and share lessons learned. We encourage open and honest dialogue through a two-way feedback process to continuously monitor our service delivery performance.

We are committed to ensuring that you receive advice in a timely manner as soon as you need it. We are available as a minimum between 9-5 Monday to Friday, and understand that HR matters can crop up where you need to know the next steps quickly.  You will always have a contact for urgent matters outside these core hours. For these urgent matters, we commit to ensuring you receive advice within a two-hour period where possible.