Employment Law for Employers

Mrs Justice Cox DBE recently wrote: “employment law is threatening to drown us all in the sea of case law of legislation, both domestic and European … Employment tribunals too have moved … to the modern sophisticated arena they have become for determining what are often cases involving inordinate factual and legal complexity”. It is hardly surprising that employers need good legal advice.

With an average tribunal claim costing the employer thousands of pounds, as well as valuable management time, it pays to stay on the right side of the law.

At Hunt & Coombs Solicitors, our employment lawyers and solicitors can help you with:

• Day to day employment advice - grievance and disciplinary issues, absence management, stress claims, managing poor performance, retirement, mediation, working time, employment status and atypical working arrangements
• Employment tribunal litigation and dispute resolution - unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE claims, family friendly rights, mediation and breach of contract
• Litigation - bonus claims, team moves, breach of contract, commission, confidentiality, breach of fiduciary duties, industrial action, recovery from employees, restrictive covenants, garden leave and wrongful dismissal
• Business protection - protecting confidential information and intellectual property, recovering company property, injunctions and claims for damages and accounts of profits
• Restructuring - restructuring and effecting change, redundancies, outsourcing, change of service provider and in-sourcing, TUPE, relocations and closures, changes to terms and conditions and insolvency
• Family friendly issues - maternity and adoption leave, bonus issues, paternity leave, parental leave, time-off rights and flexible working
• Discrimination - age, disability, equal pay, gender, marital status, race, religious belief, sex, sexual orientation, trade union membership, whistle blowing, part time and fixed time workers
• Employee privacy and data protection - vetting, references, monitoring, security issues, dealing with subject access requests and retention of documents
• Documentation, contract and policy - employment contracts, employment policies and procedures, service agreements, employee handbooks, employment letters, consultancy agreements and standard form documents
• Severance - negotiating severance terms, compromise agreements, garden leave and protecting business assets
• Health checks - carrying out assessments of your current employment policies and procedures to optimise efficiency and ensure the most cost effective and legally compliant practices
• Training - training your staff on any aspect of employment law or on the implementation of new working practices

Read our Glossary of Employment Law terms.

Please contact us for advice or representation.