Employment

Employment law is now more complex than ever, with greater numbers of employees threatening and bringing actions against their employers and an increasing burden of legislation to deal with.

We have a specialist and highly experienced team who regularly deal with businesses in the transport industry through our Transport Law team. They can guide you through the maze of employment laws and procedures to ensure that all your objectives are met.

The team can advise on:

• recruiting
  
• dismissing employees
  
• unfair dismissal claims
  
• redundancies
  
• race, sex and disability discrimination issues
  
• service agreements for directors
  
• contracts of employment and statements of terms and conditions of employment
  
• breach of contract and wrongful dismissal
  
• restrictions on competition
  
• business transfers
  
• working time regulations
  
• minimum pay
• disciplinary procedures
  
• employment handbooks
  
• union recognition, disputes and strikes
  
• maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave issues
  
• sickness issues
  
• part time workers rights
  
• fixed term workers rights
  
• data protection law

We offer fast, effective and practical solutions to all your employment law problems. We can also offer a fixed fee packaged service (AES) which deals with all aspects of employment law on a retained basis, including drafting your employment documents and unlimited telephone advice, all backed up with a insurance cover for both legal fees and pay-outs should any of your employees bring a claim.