Employment
Our highly regarded Employment Group is able to look at the bigger picture and then draw on their extensive experience and knowledge to provide tailored advice to meet the specific requirements of our clients, often acting as an expert extension to HR departments. At ABG, we always listen to our clients' needs and objectives and strike a balance between legal and commercial considerations.
Our key services include:
- Business Reorganisation
- Collective Consultation
- Compromise Agreements
- Contracts of Employment
- Contractual Issues
- Cross Frontier and Jurisdictional issues
- Directors
- Discrimination and Equal pay
- Employment Data and Monitoring
- Employee Status
- Maternity and Paternity incl. Flexible Working
- Policies and Procedures incl. disciplinary
- Recruitment
- Restraint of Trade and Business Secrets
- Sickness and Time off work
- Termination of Employment
- Trade Unions
- Transfer of Business
- Tribunals
- Wages
- Whistleblowing
- Working Time
Recent Work:
- Advising owner managed businesses of all sizes and large international companies on the drafting and implementation of employment contracts and employment policies.
- Advising large national housebuilder on restructuring and national redundancy programme following acquisition.
- Acted for a computer software company on the successful enforcement of a 6 month UK wide non-compete restrictive covenant to protect sensitive commercial software and marketing information.
- Representing an international oil plc in all aspects of employment law including cross-jurisdictional matters.
- Drafting Consultancy Agreements for City based computer software company.
- Successfully defended Employment Tribunal claims for national housebuilder brought by self-employed labourers claiming worker status and holiday pay and winning substantial costs.
- Advising UK subsidiary of Indian software company on all aspects of employment law including complicated grievance and disciplinary matters (some with cross jurisdiction aspects)
- Advising various companies on senior executive exits including drafting Compromise Agreements
- Host of general day to day advice on disciplinary, grievance and exit issues
- Advising 380 individual employees on the terms of their Compromise Agreements on closure of national maintenance and repair business
Some Useful External Links:-
(ABG is not responsible for the content of external links)
ACAS Code of Conduct (http://www.acas.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=1041)
MoJ Bribery Act Guidance (http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/docs/bribery-act-2010-guidance.pdf)
Christopher Gigg
+44 (0)115 947 6651
cgigg@abg-law.com
David Hardstaff
+44 (0)115 934 3323 (Direct Dial)
dhardstaff@abg-law.com
Kathryn Meir
+44 (0)115 947 6651
kmeir@abg-law.com