Employment Law

Employment Law

Employment law is constantly evolving but our team at Smith & Stone LLP are constantly up to date with these changes and they fully understand the effect of these changes and what impact they will have on you or your business. We are therefore able to assist you or your business throughout the life of the employment relationship.

For Employees

Employees spend a large amount of time at work and throughout a person’s working career, it is likely that an employee will have a dispute with their employer. In order to resolve matters before they escalate it may be necessary to seek legal advice as to your statutory and contractual rights.

We can help you with a number of employment issues including:

  • Bullying and harassment at work
  • Discrimination
  • Employment contracts
  • Grievance and disciplinary procedures
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Redundancy
  • Settlement Agreements
  • TUPE
  • Unfair Dismissal

For Employers

Due to the fast changing nature of employment law, it is essential that employers obtain specialist employment advice in order to avoid unintentional consequences which may enable your employee to initiate employment tribunal proceedings against your business. We are able to suggest sensible strategies to your business so that these risks are minimises by developing and implementing cleans procedures to deal with these issues.

We are able to help you with all employee related issues including:

  • Bullying and harassment at work
  • Discrimination
  • Employment contracts
  • Grievance and disciplinary procedures
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Redundancy
  • Settlement Agreements
  • TUPE
  • Unfair Dismissal
  • Business restructures
  • Collective redundancies
  • Directors’ service agreements
  • Employee agreements and contracts for junior and senior members of staff
  • Employment training
  • Employment tribunal claims
  • Staff handbooks and HR policies
  • General day to day questions

Should an employee issue employment tribunal proceedings against your business, we are able to assist you throughout the whole litigious process in a cost efficient manner. Throughout the course of any employment related litigation, we offer innovative dispute resolution solutions having full regard to the cost and time consequences of management being involved in employment tribunal proceedings.

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