Employment

Our team has a wealth of experience advising on both day to day and contentious issues in the workplace.  We act for clients across a variety of sectors including financial services, leisure and retail, luxury products, manufacturing, education, and the public sector.

The team is prized by clients for its commercial advice, balancing competing concerns in any given situation.  Service to clients goes beyond identifying problems, focussing on cost effective and creative solutions which can be implemented by management.  We are proactive, understanding our client's businesses and the ethos of their workplaces, and endeavour to anticipate and advise on issues before they become problems.

We regularly work with colleagues and other lawyers abroad on secondments, dual contracts, transactions, outsourcings and other projects with an international dimension.

Our lawyers have been involved in cutting edge work in many areas, including team moves, whistleblowing claims, private sector equal pay disputes, disability discrimination, racial victimisation, age and sex discrimination and bonus claims.

We can help you with all aspects of the employment relationship, including:

  • Day to day HR/legal advice: workplace behaviour, drafting and enforcement of policies and handbooks, service agreements.
  • Diversity: promoting equal opportunities and avoiding or defending discrimination claims, including HR and management training.
  • Working patterns: including flexible working, casual and agency workers, secondments, dual contracts.
  • Restrictive covenants and protection of confidential information: we are market leaders in this field.
  • Business reorganisations: strategic advice on collective redundancies, consultation, communications management, exit packages.
  • Business sales and acquisitions: commercial and operational issues in outsourcing, due diligence on M&A, information and consultation, TUPE and redundancy issues. 
  • Managing employee departures: planning and executing exit procedures, negotiating and finalising exit packages, drafting compromise agreements.
  • Employment litigation and mediation: bringing and defending claims in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, High Court and Court of Appeal; mediating disputes.

A team that works well, with lawyers that are ever helpful and on the ball

Chambers UK 2009

"The kind of top client service that is hard to find"

Chambers UK 2009

"The sheer commitment of Stephenson Harwood is key to its success"

Chambers UK 2010

"Total dedication"

Asia Pacific Legal 500 2009/2010

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