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Employment law for employers

Pragmatic advice to move your business forward.

Your workforce is the essence of your business and needs to be effective. The challenge can come from the fact that employment law is dynamic and rapidly evolving with a constant stream of new rules and regulations. As the employer, you want to be in a good place for recruiting and retaining employees as well as dismissing them fairly should the need arise.

Our Employment team has the expertise and experience to help you navigate and adapt to the changing landscape and provide innovative solutions. We work closely with many types of clients including large companies, SMEs, owner-managed businesses and start-ups across a wide range of sectors providing advice on a variety of issues, whether they are HR related, strategic, complex or contentious.

We get to know your business, working practices, culture and commercial objectives. This enables us to provide tailored and pragmatic advice to help your organisation move forward and minimise HR headaches and disruption. Where possible we promote the early resolution of employment disputes but, when this cannot be achieved, we guide you through the litigation process with a commitment to delivering the best possible result for your business.

Please visit our price & service information page for more information regarding these services.

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Coronavirus Employment Advice Helpline

We are now offering clients an Employment Advice Helpline. We are here to answer any queries or concerns you might have regarding the impact of Covid-19, what legal options are available to you, and what steps you can take to protect your business, your staff, or your job.

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Returning to the office safely - top tips from Collyer Bristow

For the last 130 days, Government guidance has been to work from home wherever possible, but this will become optional from 1 August 2020. Here are our ‘Top 10 Tips’ for employers on how an office environment can be made Covid compliant for this transition.

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A free guidance tool for employers

Should your staff member return to the workplace?

As employers are contemplating returning to their offices or other workplaces, our free tool helps to assess which employees could return to the workplace with relative ease, and gives initial guidance on how to manage others that either should not, or are unwilling, to return.

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Tania Goodman

Partner - Head of Employment

Talk to Tania about Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers & Talk to me for Coronavirus related advice

Major commercial restructure

We worked closely with well-known international company during the major restructuring of its operations. This included bringing external staff in-house (via TUPE) and the reorganisation of its entire sales function internally.

Tania Goodman

Partner - Head of Employment

Talk to Tania about Employment law for employees & Employment law for employers & Talk to me for Coronavirus related advice

High Court injunction against former employees

We acted in an emergency High Court injunction against two former senior employees, who had misappropriated our client’s commercial data and software, and attempted to set up a competing business. Our quick and decisive action removed the threat to the business and enabled a claim for substantial damages.