Employment

Chambers offers expertise in both individual and collective employment law. Members act for employers and employees and have experience of private, public and voluntary sectors.

Our team offers specialist advice and advocacy in the following areas:

• References and recruitment issues
• Drafting contracts, policies and procedures
• Advising on and drafting bonus, commission and other employee incentive schemes
• Disciplinary hearings and grievances, particularly involving senior executives and professionals and those in regulated employment, such as education and health sectors, H.M. Forces, police and emergency services
• Director and senior executive severance
• Unfair and wrongful dismissal claims, including constructive dismissal
• Discrimination, victimisation and harassment on grounds of race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, religion or belief
• Equal pay and other remuneration issues
• Part-time work and atypical work arrangements
• Parental and maternity rights
• Working Time
• National Minimum Wage
• “Whistleblowing” claims and public interest disclosures
• Data protection
• Trade secrets, confidentiality, restrictive covenants and injunctive relief
• Transfers of undertakings and employment aspects of outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions
• Trade union law
• Industrial action
• Health and safety
• Workplace stress and personal injury at work

The employment team is also able to offer employment law training tailored to individual requirements.