Employment Law for Employers

Multi-jurisdictional expertise for all your employment law issues. Our employment law team comprises employment lawyers and skilled specialists. Giambrone & Partners' employment lawyers understand the difficulties encountered by businesses

Regarding companies operating across borders, we are able to help organisations overcome the differing legal and cultural barriers when running a multinational business we can navigate through new international standards and regional laws, such as European employment law in the ever-changing arena of employment law.

We manage risk in relation to executive exits, support clients through exercises such as business restructures and handle our clients’ most complex employee relations issues, which are often reputationally sensitive. As well as providing this exceptional support with all aspects of strategic advisory work, transactional involvement and advice relating to contentious issues.

We understand the impact of such issues such as long term sickness absence, performance management, equality legislation and discrimination and recognise that they are high on the agenda of all businesses from small companies to large multinationals. We can also assist in complex pensions law issues and the need for robust reward and retention policies.

We design and roll out HR policies, review executive pay, co-ordinate employment cost-cutting exercises and manage industrial relations issues or complex pensions matters. We advise on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, from the point of recruitment to eventual termination.

Our services cover the following areas:

1. Recruitment
2. Employment Contracts
3. HR Advice
4. Post Termination Restrictions
5. Internal Policies and Procedures
6. Redundancy
7. Maternity & Family Rights
8. Settlement Agreements
9. Employment Tribunal Representation

Our lawyers can assist with all aspects of recruitment including interview processes including  the engagement of self-employed contractors, drafting of consultancy agreements, the rights of part-time or fixed term employees, the employment  such as temporary, casual or home-based workers, the national minimum wage.

Our lawyers can advise both employees and employers on all aspects of employment contracts, including negotiating and drafting service agreements for senior executives and standard employment contracts for other employees.  We can advise on the conduct of grievance and disciplinary procedures, holiday entitlement, references, retirement, dealing with long-term or persistent absence, employee rights to time off work.  post-termination restrictions, confidentiality obligations and other clauses for employer protection;

Our lawyers can ensure that Data Protection policies are valid as well as family friendly policies.  and those related to health and safety, anti-bullying and harassment.  In the event of restructuring and the potential for redundancies our lawyers can provide guidance and advice as to how the manage the entire process.

We can guide on all aspects of transfers of undertakings, including assisting employers in due diligence exercises and minimising the risk of consequential claims.  As well as termination of employment from junior employees to senior executives, including assisting in negotiations for and the drafting of settlement agreements;

Our lawyers can represent businesses at the  Employment Tribunal in respect of  claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, discrimination in all its forms, unlawful deduction from wages, breach of contract, equal pay claims. .