Employment for Employees

The employment team has vast experience of advising individual employees at all levels and routinely advises on the exit arrangements relating to senior company executives.

We appreciate that issues at work can be extremely stressful to deal with. If instructed by you we will often take over the correspondence with your employer to assist you in reaching a resolution.

Services

A summary of services is set out below. For more information on specific issues, please contact Head of Department Sara Barrett (Partner)

Advice on signing compromise agreements
Claims against your employer
Contracts of employment and Enforceability of Restrictive Covenants
Discrimination in employment
Grievances
Long term absence issues
Maternity, paternity and family friendly rights
Performance management
Redundancy rights
Transfer of undertakings
Tribunal advice and representation
Unfair dismissal
Whistleblowing
Workplace mediation

Costs

We are happy to accept instructions which are covered by insurance and will agree applicable rates directly with those insurance companies. Where instructions are privately funded we will agree transparent arrangements for charging and where possible will consider fixed and capped fee arrangements.

If you are an employer rather than an employee, please click here to read about the services we can offer to you.