Employment

Your business is only as good as your people. Working with people brings opportunities, but also risks. A business has to manage those risks and find solutions to minimise potential liabilities. Delivering solutions is a huge challenge in an environment where employment law is constantly changing. To help you meet this challenge you need to work with a team of employment lawyers you can trust. A team who understands your business. A team who can work with you to deliver solutions that are right for your business, rather than providing a “one size fits all” approach.

The Employment team at Charles Russell does just that. We make a point of getting to know our clients’ businesses and we build strong relationships enabling us to deliver strategic, cost effective solutions. We want to be part of your team and help your business grow.

Our expertise includes:

• Risk management: including file audits and working with clients to prevent problems arising.
• Employment documentation: including pre-employment screening, recruitment processes, drafting contracts, policies and staff handbooks as well as employee benefits including share schemes.
• Dismissals and grievance: practical solutions throughout the dismissal and grievance processes.
• Corporate governance and regulatory issues: including the UK Corporate Governance Code.
• Project work: including managing audits to reduce the risk of employment claims arising, advice on collective redundancies, union rights/restructuring and the related consultation issues.
• Business transfers: advising on the employment related aspects of UK business transfers and post merger harmonisation issues.
• Dispute resolution: all aspects of employment related litigation including unfair dismissal, breach of contract, discrimination, board room disputes and enforcement of restrictions.
• Business protection: including advising on restrictive covenants, protecting confidential information and client/ customer contacts/relationships as well as unlawful interference by competitors and team moves.
• International: including co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional employment aspects to M&A, outsourcing/insourcing arrangements.  Due diligence risk analysis, harmonisation programmes including the necessary consultation/compliance obligations across Europe and worldwide.
• General advisory work: all aspects of employment law including data protection and employee monitoring issues, the impact of incoming European Directives, equal opportunities issues, health and safety and insolvency situations.

 To download a PDF version of the above employment text click here.