Employment

Ashfords' Employment Team is known for its pragmatic, rigorous and commercial advice to employers in both the private and public sectors. Our solicitors have considerable experience of supporting clients through all aspects of HR practice, including the preparation of contracts and handbooks, restructures and redundancy, the TUPE implications on the sale of businesses and the successful management of litigation in Courts and Employment Tribunals.

The size of our team means that we can support clients' HR needs wherever and whenever help is needed. Clients tell us that they value our approachability, and willingness, and ability to understand their businesses and objectives.

• contracts and terms and conditions of employment;
• tax and employee incentives;
• handbooks, policies and procedures;
• maternity issues and "family friendly" policies;
• minimum wage;
• working time;
• restructures and redundancy;
• trade union recognition and industrial disputes;
• grievance, disciplinary, capability and dismissal procedures;
• termination packages;
• post-termination restrictions;
• all employment aspects of business and company sales, and public sector outsourcing projects, including TUPE and the negations of warranties and indemnities;
• litigation and advocacy, including unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and breach of contract, discrimination issues of all types including harassment and bullying, equal pay and whistleblowing;
• employing foreign workers;
• intellectual property; and
  
• data protection.
  

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