Understanding and complying with constantly changing employment laws is one of the main challenges facing businesses today. We can overhaul your contracts and policies, provide staff training and handle any disputes and Employment Tribunal claims. This leaves you to focus on managing your business.
Our Approach
We will work to understand the needs and aspirations of your business and provide commercially focused services that are tailored to your particular circumstances. Our first aim would be to work with you to avoid employment disputes. However, where a dispute is unavoidable we would give clear, practical and cost-effective advice to reduce the impact on your business and maximise the prospects of a successful outcome.
Our Expertise
We can help with any employment problem and have particular experience in dealing with and resolving employment disputes and Employment Tribunal claims. Our specialist background allows us to get to the heart of the issue quickly and efficiently The following will give you a flavour of how we can assist.
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Preparing Contracts, Policies and Procedures
We can draft or update your business’ documentation to ensure that you comply with current legislation. Such documentation is often key to resolving disputes and to minimising the threat of Employment Tribunal claims.
Employment Tribunal Claims
We have significant experience of handling a wide variety of Employment Tribunal claims including unfair dismissal, discrimination, unpaid wages, holiday pay and notice pay, whistleblowing and maternity issues. Our advice is practical, clear and aimed at efficiently securing your desired objective. Where it is appropriate, we are skilled at resolving issues at an early stage thereby minimising the disruption and cost to your business. Where resolution is not possible, we will work ensure that your case is advanced as forcefully as possible.
Redundancy
Unfortunately the need to make redundancies may be unavoidable in the current economic climate. We can advise upon the best approach lawfully to achieve your commercial objectives within a redundancy process thereby reducing the prospect of an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair dismissal.
Compromise/Termination Agreements
Agreeing the terms on which an employee will leave your business can be crucial to the protection of your business’ reputation and in preventing future Employment Tribunal claims. We can assist you in negotiating the terms of an employee’s departure and in doing so ensure that your business is properly safeguarded.
Disciplinaries and Grievances
We can guide you through any disciplinary or grievance process ensuring that you comply with the law whilst addressing any concerns you have about an employee’s conduct or performance. We will assist in minimising the disruption to your business and the risk of a future Employment Tribunal claim. We will tailor our approach to your needs and advise upon the best strategy to resolve your problem as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Training
We can design and deliver training to your managers and staff that addresses common employment law issues and/or areas of concern that you have. In doing so you enhance the ability of your team to deal with issues confidently thereby reducing the risk of disruptive disputes.