We provide pragmatic and commercial advice and guidance to employers, helping our clients to resolve their employment law issues swiftly and with minimal expense. When advising we will take time to understand your objectives before summarising the legal position and providing you with options. Perhaps most importantly we’ll always make a recommendation based on your objective – we won’t sit on the fence.

Our partners have been recognised as ‘leaders in the field’ by leading legal directories for over a decade.

Advice and assistance we provide includes the following:

Before Employment

  • Recruitment – advising regarding job adverts, right to work checks, interview and health questions
  • Restrictive covenants and related issues – advising regarding team moves and the recruitment of staff who are subject to restrictive covenants, including defending proceedings issued by a new employee’s former employer
  • Offer letters and contracts of employment / service agreements (including drafting of restrictive covenants and bonus schemes)

During Employment

  • Advising regarding and drafting policies and procedures / staff handbooks
  • Performance management
  • Sickness absence
  • Grievances and disciplinary issues – the conduct of investigations, hearings and appeals; tricky issues such as anonymous witnesses and covert recording of hearings
  • Discrimination and whistleblowing
  • Dealing with trade unions – including collective bargaining and dealing with industrial action
  • TUPE transfers

Termination of Employment

  • Redundancies – including large scale redundancies involving 20 or more employees
  • Dismissal on the grounds of misconduct, incapability, ill-health or a breakdown in working relationships
  • Settlement agreements – “without prejudice” and protected conversations, how to position the offer, and advice regarding the terms and drafting the agreement

After Termination

  • Preventing unfair competition – including taking steps to prevent the misuse of confidential information and enforcing restrictive covenants, including obtaining injunctive relief if required
  • Dealing with ACAS pre-claim conciliation
  • Defending Employment Tribunal claims (our fees)
  • Instituting and resisting proceedings in the County and High Court

Training

Designing and delivering bespoke training courses for clients. Please find out more details about our training courses here.

Retainers

We support many of our clients via a retainer service where we charge a fixed monthly fee, irrespective of usage, which allows employers and their HR teams to seek advice without incurring additional costs. We are also happy to agree a fixed fee for one off projects.

What our clients are saying

Nicola Barrass has always provided excellent, sensible, realistic and timely advice for us.

— Legal 500, legal directory

The HR team have instructed Lee for many years now. The team have always found Lee to be responsive and very practical in how he gives advice – he doesn’t just quote the law at us.

— Head of HR, City Health Care Partnership CIC

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