British employment law

British employment law experts

British employment law is notoriously complex, and changes rapidly as society’s changing values are applied to the workplace. Irwin Mitchell (IM) has a specialist employment law team who help organisations and individuals to understand how British employment law applies to them and how recent changes affect their rights.

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Case Study - Maternity Leave

Take maternity leave for example. British employment law only accepted maternity leave as a statutory right unconditional on length of service in 1994. Maternity leave at the time was 14 weeks. By 1999 paid maternity leave was extended to 18 weeks and 2001 saw the introduction of 2 weeks paid paternity leave. 2003 saw yet more amendments to this legislation and yet more is expected in 2005.

The point is that as an employer with the best intentions, or as an employee who simply wishes to be treated fairly, it is very difficult to keep up with British employment law without expert guidance. That’s what you get from IM.

Types of British employment law

We split our British employment law services into two categories:

Non-contentious employment adivce

We help hr departments and senior executives keep up with British employment law. We ensure that the organisation is behaving properly with respect to the latest British employment law on maternity leave, health and safety, sickness benefits etc and we advise on hr policy development, pensions rights and options etc.

Contentious employment disputes

Our British employment law solicitors will help in all forms of dispute, from tribunals and hearings to dismissals and disciplinary procedures, dealing with everything from redundancies and breach of contract to any form of discrimination.

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