The RadcliffesLeBrasseur Employment Group is made up of a team of specialist partners and assistants who advise clients on all aspects of employment law, including pensions and tax-related matters.
We act for both employers - ranging from business start-ups to multinational corporations - and employees, providing advice on the full range of employment and HR-related matters.
Contentious Matters
- disciplinary and grievance procedures
- redundancy, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal
- sex or race discrimination
- sexual harassment
- disability discrimination
- claims in the county court, high court, and employment tribunals
- compromise agreements
- equal pay
- enforcement of restrictive covenants
- senior executive terminations and severance agreements
Non Contentious Matters
- drafting and negotiating employment and consultancy contracts
- standard terms and conditions of employment
- employee benefits and incentive packages
- equal opportunities, maternity and anti-harassment policies
- maternity rights
- application of TUPE in business transfers
- trade union consultations and negotiations
- employment - related tax
- pensions
- employee and executive share schemes
- immigration and work permits
- employed versus self-employed status
- EU law and regulations
- directors' fiduciary duties
- other employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing and CCT
For more information about our work in relation to Pensions and Share Incentives please refer to the seperate pages on these areas.
Some examples of recent work are:
- acting for an employer in the public sector, in relation to sex discrimination claims by hundreds of employees worth approximately £250,000.
- acting for a components manufacturer in relation to a selective redundancy programme under which approximately 30 out of 70 staff were made redundant. Following our advice, the employer was not required to offer substantial compensation and no claims were brought by employees.
- advising on the TUPE aspects of a substantial hotel purchase in central London.
- handling the TUPE aspects of a £12m outsourcing project on behalf of an educational establishment.
- acting for a major chemical manufacturer in a class action brought by employees claiming that their employment had been terminated as a result of a transfer of undertakings.
- advising high net-worth individuals on their severance packages following termination of their employment.
The Employment Group provides a regular Employment Update to help businesses to keep up to date with changes in employment law and to understand how these changes may affect their business affairs.
We also run workshops and seminars on topical, employment-related issues, which are provided on-site at clients' premises or at our offices, and members of the Employment Group have had various articles published on employment issues.