Law of Employment

We know that compliance with employment law can be daunting. Employment laws are broad, complex and change regularly. Keeping up is a full-time job in itself, and sometimes impossible for beginners.

We specialize in advising start-ups, although we can help any size business. We’ll help you get the paperwork right, help you deal with staffing problems or questions you may not have encountered before, and be there if an employee makes a claim in court.

We will always consider how the problem is affecting your relationship with your employees and their relationship with other employees. Doing nothing can affect morale and waste management energy and time. We handle matters in a commercial manner – avoiding litigation where possible. If a commercially viable solution involves any risk, we will advise you of the potential benefits and pitfalls before you agree to move forward.

Employment Law Services for Your Business.
We can help your business in the following ways:

Settlement agreements and negotiated exits.
Where it just doesn’t work, we can assist you through the process of having a conversation and drafting Sustainable Agreements.

Employment Law Services for Your Business.
We can help your business in the following ways:

Contracts, policies and procedures.
We work to get to know you, your business and staff roles before drafting bespoke Employment Contracts and Employee Policy and Procedure Manuals.

In addition to drafting documents from scratch, we can conduct an audit of your existing documents and let you know what needs to be changed.

Staff problems: Disciplinary procedures, skills and complaints.
We appreciate that you may never have had to discipline a member of staff before or don’t know how to deal with a persistently absent or underperforming employee. In addition to drawing up the procedures you need to follow, we can guide you through the process or even conduct an investigation for you. We will advise whether your approach is likely to be considered reasonable and discuss the risks of a court action.

Redundancies and restructuring.
Restructuring and redundancy situations are never easy. The last thing a business needs in tough times is further liability. We can help you get it right, consulting with employees about changes where necessary and designing fair redundancy processes when staff need to be made redundant. Where restructuring or redundancy leads to employee disputes, we can advise on the merits of defending or settling claims in court.

Time off and flexible working for parents and carriers.
Maternity leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave and more: with different forms of leave available for both mothers and fathers, duties towards pregnant staff and pregnant fathers and the right for any employee to request flexible working, it can be difficult to negotiate the minefield of legislation in this area. We are experts in this field and can answer your questions, no matter how trivial or complex.

Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Discrimination.
To successfully defend discrimination or harassment claims in court, it may be necessary to show that the employer has taken all reasonable steps to prevent staff from discriminating against, harassing or victimizing their colleagues. This starts with an equal opportunity policy, but it does not end there.

We can help you not only by drafting appropriate policies, but by advising you when staff raise complaints of discrimination or harassment.

Disputes and Dispute Resolution.
Disputes can be difficult to avoid in today’s society, especially in a commercial environment. When a business dispute arises, it is essential to work through it in a way to reach a resolution in the quickest, least expensive way with minimal disruption and commercial damage.

In most dispute situations, our commercial clients are interested in avoiding negative publicity and want to be sure that relationships are not jeopardized. So we work with them to formulate a strategy for which I will ensure an amicable and favorable conclusion.

When it comes to business-related property, the combined knowledge of our dedicated property experts along with that of our commercial property litigation attorneys is highly respected. If you are in the middle of a land, building or boundary dispute; are on either side of adverse possession proceedings; are trying to resolve a right-of-way or right-of-light issue, or the need to enforce a commercial lease, we’ll be there to help.

Residential landlords and tenants.
Residential tenancy disputes have the potential to become comprehensive and commercially damaging in terms of time and expense. Whether your residential tenant is in breach of their tenancy agreement, or you need expert guidance to evict a tenant and regain possession of the property, you’ll be able to fully rely on us to guide you efficiently at every step for a quick, favorable and legal result.

Commercial Landlord and Tenant.
The combined expertise across our commercial property and litigation teams allows us to provide high level knowledge in all areas of commercial landlord and tenant law. Our services include advice on the termination and renewal of commercial leases. We have experience in representing clients through court proceedings for lease renewal; breach of commercial lease terms and termination of lease termination claims and guidance through lease reviews and filing or defending service charge dispute claims.