Employment
When you are looking for employment law advice, we know the issues that really matter - and our priority is to find the best solutions for you and your business.
Our team, which has a host of law award titles under its belt, advises on all areas of employment, pensions and benefits law for clients in the private and public sectors including employment contracts, sex discrimination, unfair dismissal, working time, trade union disputes and recognition, wind-ups, transfers and TUPE-related issues.
Our proactive approach means we work with clients to achieve best practice on all people issues, preventing employment disputes from arising in the first place. We regularly help clients meet their strategic business objectives by working together through change management exercises involving business transfers and large-scale reorganisations of staff.
"response levels are timely" and you get "a sense that they provide more than simply what the fee buys" Legal 500 2009
We also offer our b*spoke Employment Law Training Programme, a suite of four interactive training packages providing practical, relevant solutions to all manner of potential HR challenges. From discipline to absence management and poor performance, each training module is tailored specifically to your industry, guiding you through a range of real-life scenarios played out on film by professional actors. Each film acts as a 'virtual role-play' via interactive DVD to explore, in real time, the specific legal issues which arise. The objective is to empower your people managers with a view to avoiding employment disputes from arising in the first place. Delivered by our 'battle-hardened' team of lawyers, these packages are based on full- or half-day on-site sessions and interactive workshops.
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If issues do arise in any of these areas, we have the frontline expertise to fight the client's corner. We offer a comprehensive contentious service covering tribunal appearances throughout the UK.
Employment Law Alliance
We are proud to be the sole member firm for Scotland in the global Employment Law Alliance (ELA). With over 3,000 specialist employment lawyers in all 50 states in the USA, every Canadian province, and over 75 countries, the ELA allows our firm the ability to provide clients with seamless employment and HR law services in any jurisdiction where they do business world-wide.
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