Your relationship with your employees is vital to your business’s success. Our employment solicitors can help you manage the legal side of this relationship, leaving your managers with more time to do what they do best.

Employment law issues can become costly, time-consuming and stressful if you don’t handle them quickly. With our help, you can develop the right policies to ensure legal compliance and proactively resolve problems before they grow.

We’re one of the top employment law teams in the country and work with businesses across major industry sectors. Our lawyers are highly experienced in all aspects of employment law so you’ll get comprehensive advice about your HR processes, from recruitment onwards.

What Employment Law Services Do We Offer?

Our forward-thinking and pragmatic advice will help you reduce the risk, costs, stress and management time involved with staff issues. We can help you:

Train managers on common employment law issues
Prepare for disciplinary and grievance hearings, appeals, and employment tribunals
Take advantage of outsourcing opportunities and navigate the TUPE regulations
Comply with the latest employment legislation
Transform a specific part of your business and advise on the employment implications
Manage equality and diversity requirements
Prevent and resolve employment disputes
Limit reputational damage
Protect confidential information
Stop leavers from poaching valuable employees and customers
Draft, review, or update contracts and policies
Conduct a fair process to change terms of employment
Implement or improve disciplinary and grievance processes
Bring skilled workers into your business from outside the UK
Manage your relationship with trade unions
Carry out collective redundancy consultations.

We can advise on single issues or work with you on a long term retainer basis. Our fixed-price IMhrplus service gives you access to a wealth of online resources, regular legal updates, and a dedicated solicitor for advice on day-to-day employment and HR matters.

Who Can We Help?

Our employment solicitors advise businesses of all sizes and have particular experience with organisations specialising in:

Financial services
Construction
Retail
Manufacturing
Consumer goods
Facilities Management
Education
Telecommunications, media and technology
Recruitment

We’re based in major cities around the country so can help wherever you or your employees are based. We also work with international companies on UK employment law issues.

Why Choose Our Employment Law Solicitors?

You’ll be working with one of the UK’s leading teams of employment solicitors, with offices across the country.

We’re efficient and cost-effective across both individual matters and high volume work. With our strategic advice and set cost training packages, you can benefit from:

Lower business risk through improved legal compliance
Increased profits from improved staff performance and productivity
Reduced risk of leavers damaging the company
Peace of mind for managers
More time for managers to drive value.

Our flexible fee structures mean that you get exactly the level of service you need with no unwelcome surprises. You can choose from options including a bank of hours, capped fees, or a retainer service.

You can also take advantage of our firm’s expertise in other areas of law that impact employers, such as pensions, tax and immigration.

Contact Us

Learn more about how our employment lawyers can help your business – call us on 01142 781 629 or contact us online.

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Case Study – Disciplinary Procedures

A manufacturer with 80 staff and a £16m annual turnover contacted us for advice on how to handle a disciplinary issue with their top salesman.

The salesman had been given a 15 month dangerous driving ban that would have impacted his ability to get to and from appointments. On our advice, the company followed a disciplinary procedure which led to them dismissing the salesman.

During the process, they discovered that he had been sending sensitive commercial data to a personal email address. We advised that they should examine his emails, which revealed that their HR manager had also leaked similar data to the salesman during his suspension.

The company threatened disciplinary proceedings against the HR manager as well, and they left under a settlement agreement.

The manufacturer asked us for a second opinion after their retained employment law advisors cautioned against dismissal.

Our advice meant that they could quickly secure the exit of two disloyal employees while avoiding potentially costly employment claims.

We fully prepared the directors to handle the disciplinary and appeal hearings with a minimum of stress which meant that they demonstrated to other employees that they were ready to be firm but fair with disciplinary issues."

Fergal Dowling, Partner in Birmingham

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We have offices in major cities throughout the UK and our lawyers can arrange to visit you or your business in person if necessary. We also have international capability, with global links to other legal specialists.

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