The landscape of employment relationships is diverse, encompassing various arrangements such as full-time, part-time, seasonal work, interns, volunteers, workers, consultants/independent contractors, and partners. Establishing well-drafted contracts of employment and consultancy contracts is crucial to define roles, rights, and obligations clearly.
Our Employment Law team excels in advising on a comprehensive spectrum of employment and consultancy contracts. This includes addressing complexities arising from business sales, transfers of undertakings (TUPE), corporate restructuring, and other workforce-related matters. We recognise the importance of effective employment contracts, workplace rules, and policies in ensuring legal compliance, providing necessary information to staff, and fostering a harmonious work environment.
Should disputes arise, our specialist Employment dispute resolution lawyers offer extensive experience in advising businesses and individuals on employment law rights and obligations. This spans issues such as fair treatment, remuneration entitlements, contractual restrictive covenants, discrimination, and whistleblowing provisions.
- compensation and benefits
- share options and incentive plans
- breaches of directors’ duties
- employment contracts, policies and staff handbooks
- HR support and training
- all types of employment litigation- unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistle-blowing
- partnerships and LLPs
- restrictive covenants and injunctions
- TUPE transfers
- business re-organisation/restructuring
- businesses in wide range of sectors, including technology, fintech, construction and engineering, financial services, media, leisure, recruitment and not-for-profit, amongst others
- individuals in relation to any claim that is related to their rights under employment law, including unfair dismissal, redundancy, discrimination, whistle-blowing, contractual changes, recruitment issues and breach of contract for employees, self-employed and partners/limited liability partners