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Employment
Most employment scenarios are cheap to fix early on, but get expensive as they are dragged out. A difficult conversation happens before anyone thinks to ask what the contract, policy or employment law allows, a restructure gets planned before it's checked against process, and employment law is only considered when the options have narrowed to managing a grievance or a tribunal claim rather than avoiding one.
We advise on the employment issues that determine whether a decision lands safely. That means contracts and handbooks structured to scale as the team grows, and restructures or redundancies run correctly to avoid exposure. It also means handling difficult exits so they're settled cleanly, and resolving genuine uncertainty over employment status before it becomes a liability.
Our consultant partners have advised founders, leadership teams and HR functions across fast-evolving businesses on exactly these issues, bringing in-house counsel backgrounds and direct experience of what it is needed to manage a restructure, exit or dispute without it ending up in front of a tribunal.
THIS COVERS
- Contracts and handbooks: employment documents that protect the business and scale as the team grows
- Restructuring and redundancy: process run correctly from the outset, so the commercial outcome doesn’t get undone by a tribunal claim
- Senior exits and settlement agreements: handling difficult departures so they’re resolved cleanly
- TUPE: managing the employment implications of taking on or ending a service contract, so transferring staff don’t become a liability you didn’t price in
- Disciplinary and grievance support: guidance at the point a manager needs it, before the situation escalates
- Employment status: resolving genuine uncertainty over employment, worker or self-employed status before HMRC or a tribunal does it for you
Whether you’re building an employment framework, navigating a restructuring, or dealing with a dispute, we’re happy to talk through how we can help.
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