General
Services
General
Overview
We live in a time of constantly evolving employment rights and new legislation which give rise to complex issues for employers. Our dedicated employment team is committed to supporting businesses by providing a full range of employment services which include advising on general strategic employment issues, litigation matter and issues associated with corporate transactions and reorganisations.
Our experts deliver practical and effective employment solutions for a broad range of businesses nationwide. We provide a quality service and constructive and straightforward advice to enable our clients to develop their HR strategies and policies, improve employee relations and workplace stability and reduce the risk of disputes.
Our approach
Whether we are advising in house lawyers, HR professionals or businesses without a formal HR function we provide a service that is responsive to our client's specific individual needs. We get to know out clients their businesses and provide cost effective and commercial solutions. We have a strong culture of providing high quality work. Our clients always know who to contact if an employment problem arises and more importantly that they will get a speedy response if required.
Our style has been described by other law firms as 'tough but fair'. We see this as a sound endorsement of our approach in handling sensitive human resource issues for our clients.
Services
Policy and contractual matters
We work with our clients on their HR strategies and help them to avoid problems. We provide support and guidance for businesses in the following areas:
- Drafting Service Agreements, Agency and Consultancy Agreements, Terms and Conditions of Employment, and Employee Handbooks
- Drafting and implementing HR policies and procedures
- Advice on recruitment procedures and references
- Health & Safety issues
- Managing disciplinary and grievance issues
- Ill health absences and stress in the work place
- Restrictive covenants and intellectual property protection
- Avoiding unfair dismissal and discrimination claims
- Data protection issues
- Wages issues
Change management
In the current economic conditions internal
reorganisations, business transfers and redundancies are an inevitable
consequence of business life. It is a simple fact that change happens.
Often it is the way change is managed and presented that upsets employees
and not the change itself. With the costs of getting change wrong
increasing we work closely with our clients to develop solutions and in
particular to provide business-focused advice in the following areas:
- Major organisational and cultural changes
- Change initiatives such as mergers and
redundancies, TUPE transfers and restructuring
- Collective consultation
- Trade Union recognition
- Contractual and policy variations
Disputes
When employers and their employees part ways this can
be a managed amicable process or one which can end up being contentious
and costly for a business. We work with our clients to avoid claims
arising in the first place. If claims are issued our support often
increases their chances of succeeding in tribunals or at court. We fight
our client’s corner hard. In particular we deal with the following:
- Severance and Compromise Agreements
- Unfair dismissal claims
- Discrimination claims
- Breach of contract claims
- TUPE claims
- Boardroom disputes
- Enforcing and defending claims on confidentiality, restrictive covenants and breach of fiduciary duty including by way of injunction
- Collective and individual claims
For further information about the help we can
provide, information about fees or to subscribe to our employment
newsletters, please contact Michael Archer at m.archer@beale-law.com or tel: +44 (0) 20 7240 3474.
