Employment

& Business Immigration Solicitors

Our employment solicitors can help protect your business and can handle all types of staff and restructuring issues.

With Brexit, immigration is a much broader topic especially with businesses employing foreign nationals. With our knowledge, skill, and expertise, our immigration solicitors can also provide a range of services to start-ups, entrepreneurs, SMEs, employers, and employees.

Hiring an employee
Managing employee performance
HR Policies and Procedures
Reorganisations and Redundancies
Nurturing employee relationships
Settlement agreements & references
Business immigration
Help for employees

Please see below for more details:

Hiring an employee

When you employ staff, it is important that you respect their statutory rights and treat them in accordance with employment law. Our employment solicitors will ensure that you are following the right procedures in relation to hiring an employee:

You must pay at least the National Minimum Wage
Carry out employment checks/DBS check
Obtain employers' liability insurance
Prepare employment contracts, consultancy agreements, service contracts.
Prepare a Staff Handbook and staff policies and procedures.
Register as an employer with HMRC
Be aware of Health and Safety obligations
Enrol staff into a workplace pension scheme.
Be aware of holiday, sick pay, maternity and paternity pay rules
Treat your staff fairly and in accordance with the law.

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HR

Policies

Your business should have HR policies in place to set out the standard of conduct required of employees and provide employees with a guide on hot things should be done. Key employment policies and procedures that our employment solicitors recommend employers adopt include:

Disciplinary and grievance policies
Capability procedure
Anti-bribery and corruption
Equal opportunities policy
Maternity, adoption, parental leave, paternity leave, time off for dependants policy
Anti-harassment and bullying policy
Social media, data protection, communications system and information policy
Expenses policy
Flexible working policy
Health and safety policy
Grievance procedure
Redundancy policy
Sickness absence policy
Maternity policy
Whistleblowing policy
Preventing illegal working policy
We would be happy to provide you with template policies on all of these areas.

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Nurturing employee relationships

Managing staff and their requests appropriately can make all the difference. Our expert employment solicitors are ready and waiting to offer you expert advice with your staff and employment law issues.

Pre-empt problems: day-to-day employment support.
Staff inductions, contracts and policies.
Employing foreign workers.
Training your managers in employment law.
Helping you comply with pension auto-enrolment rules.
Handling staff problems eg grievances, disciplinary problems, sickness absence, variation of contracts etc.
Tackling disciplinary problems.
Tackling capability problems.
Dealing with bullying and harassment claims.
Handling discrimination claims.
Handling family rights, flexible working requests.
Handling pay and pension claims.
Managing holiday and working time requests.
Buying or selling a business.
Ending employment: dismissing staff, redundancies, settlement agreements.
Employment Tribunal claims.

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Help for Employees - Defending your interests as an Employee

Our clients include employees, entrepreneurs, managers, directors, and more. Our employment solicitors regularly represent and win cases for employers and employees. We can help you with:

Your Constructive dismissal, Redundancy, Discrimination and Unfair dismissal claims.
Advice on your grievance and appeal hearings.
Advice on your disciplinary and appeal hearings.
Getting a fair deal when leaving your employment by negotiating a settlement exit package.
Advice on the strengths and weaknesses of your claim.
Advice on the value of your claim.
Reviewing and signing your settlement agreement.
Issuing an employment tribunal claim.
Advising and representing you at the Employment Tribunal.

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Managing employee performance

Disciplinary action is sometimes unavoidable, but you must take the right steps to ensure that your employees are treated fairly at all times. Our employment solicitors will ensure that you do the following:

Base the process on well written job descriptions and job-related activities.
Set performance objectives with the employee
Provide ongoing monitoring and feedback on performance to the employee
When problems are identified provide support (training, coaching etc) and adequate time for the employee to improve.
Ensure that the performance appraisal form accurately documents performance - if performance is poor say so.
Periodically review the performance management process to ensure that it is being applied consistently and fairly.
Establish an appeals process.
Carry out supervision sessions and performance appraisals.
Investigate grievances by employees
Follow your Company's procedures on disciplinaries and grievances or the ACAS Code for the Conduct of disciplinary hearing and grievances if your business does not have its own procedures.

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Reorganisation

& redundancies

Our Employment Solicitors help businesses save time and money by advising, supporting and managing their redundancy processes as part of our fixed-fee Employment Law and HR Packages.

We can advise you on the issues that employers need to consider when contemplating redundancies or a business reorganization, including:

whether there is in fact a redundancy situation or whether the nub of the issue is a performance or capability issue
when the obligations to inform and consult collectively arises and how to comply
how to deal with individual employee consultation and manage the risk of claims such as unfair dismissal based on unfair selection or failure to follow a fair process
calculating an employee's entitlement to a statutory or contractual redundancy payment
TUPE advice

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Settlement agreements & references

By entering a settlement agreement, the two parties can settle any claims made by the employee after they leave; the employee waives their right to make any claims, such as unfair dismissal.

Employers:

Our settlement agreement solicitors have extensive experience in:

Drafting Settlement agreements for employers
Negotiating on the employer's behalf in a cost-effective way.
At the employer's request in large scale redundancies providing independent and commercially sensible advice to their employees.

Employees: