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Employment Law Service

Our Team

Employment Law is a very complex area. Our strength lies in the level of specialist expertise available. The Partner overseeing the work of the department is Ian Soulsby who has also for many years sat part time as an Employment Judge. The team is led by Teja Bains a solicitor who specialises in employment work.

Support for Employers

We offer a very user friendly and hands on approach and tailor the service to the requirements of the employer. Areas where we can assist include:-

• Drafting contracts of Employment and Staff Handbooks.
• Varying terms and conditions of employment.
• Drafting disciplinary and grievance procedures.
• Advice when handling disciplinary and grievance procedures.
• Defending Employment Tribunal claims including contract disputes, unfair dismissal claims and discrimination claims.
• Handling redundancy processes.
• TUPE.

Services can be provided on a fixed fee or hourly paying basis. Just phone our team to discuss.

Support for Employees

In the current economic climate no one is guaranteed job security. Problems at work or losing your job can be incredibly stressful for you and your family. We are here to help when needed, for example:-

• Advising about disciplinary and grievance procedures
• Advising regarding contractual rights
• Unfair dismissal claims including constructive dismissal
• Help with threatened redundancies or TUPE Transfers
• Rights such as maternity leave and flexible working
• Sex discrimination including harassment and victimisation
• Race discrimination
• Disability discrimination and being fit to return to work
• Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or religion or beliefAge discrimination, issues on recruitment, at work or on retirement
• Health and Safety issues and suffering a detriment for making a “protected disclosure”

The secret to our success is that we identify at the outset our clients objectives. This may be resolving a dispute by way of a Compromise Agreement, pursuing an Employment Tribunal claim to seek your job back or to recover compensation. Our level of expertise is such that we are normally able to identify at a very early stage whether or not your claim is one that should be pursued.

We offer a free 30 minute interview or telephone conversation to ascertain your details, advise you on how we can help, discuss your options in terms of the next steps and funding issues. Depending on the circumstances we undertake cases where you pay on an hourly basis or pay a fixed fee. We also consider taking cases on a contingency fee basis where you pay us nothing if you lose but if you win we charge a percentage of your winnings.

We believe our services are honest, professional, good value for money and reflect our high level of expertise.