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Employment

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There are few issues that affect every organisation to the same extent as dealing with employees. When an issue arises, you need quick and clear advice and support to manage not just the legal process, but the politics and PR issues associated with many staffing matters.

Our national employment law team specialises in advising employers in their specific context. Whether designing bespoke employment contracts and policies for your workforce, supporting you to achieve a smooth staffing restructure, advising on the recruitment of migrant workers or defending a complex discrimination claim at the employment tribunal, our team of proactive sector-experienced lawyers can support you. We deliver commercial advice that is focused on supporting you through the process to achieve your desired goal.

what we do...

National employment law team with over 20 lawyers and HR professionals - providing a full employment legal service to our clients from our offices in Birmingham, Exeter, London, Manchester and Nottingham. employment law specialists - including restructures, redundancy exercises, mergers, acquisitions, disposals and managing change.
Proactive advice on contracts, settlement agreements, remuneration strategies and policies - including secondments, diversity, maternity, paternity, harassment, disciplinary, grievance, whistle-blowing etc.

Trade unions - we advise on relationships and negotiations with trade unions and their legal representatives and have wide experience of dealing with TUPE situations in both the public and private sectors.
Bespoke training to management and councillors in conducting disciplinary and appeal hearings.

training and events

28Nov

West Midlands Diversity & Inclusion Conference (CBI event)

Browne Jacobson are corporate partners for this CBI event, where our own Kerren Daly will be speaking.

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HR core for international clients

HR core offers fixed price access to expert HR professionals, supporting you through the complexities of UK employment law, helping you identify strategic opportunities and minimise your exposure to disruptive and expensive litigation.

Read our interactive digital document for details about how HR core could work for your organisation.

related resources

Upcoming webinars

Employment webinar - swinging the lead: top tips on absence management

This webinar will look at how to deal with absent or malingering employees, using Occupational Health effectively and making the most of information available to the employer, including what sort of monitoring is allowed.

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Legal updates

Freedom of speech in the workplace - your employees and social networks

Every individual in Europe, including in the UK, has the right to freedom of expression i.e. the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and share opinions without the interference of public authorities.

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Legal updates

National Minimum Wage back pay for sleep-ins

As you will be aware, there has been a raft of tribunal claims brought by night-shift care workers for non-payment of wages during sleep-ins.

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Legal updates

Psychiatric harm arising from disciplinary proceedings

The law on psychiatric damage arising from disciplinary proceedings has recently been considered in the case of James Marsh v MoJ (2017).

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what our clients say....

Exceptional client service Browne Jacobson

Browne Jacobson provides us with a commercial approach, combined with exceptional client focus and natural ability to coach and mentor Senior Managers in a positive manner. The quality of joined up advice from HR advisors and employment lawyers, which is always available, has helped senior management focus on developing and growing the business with the confidence to deal with HR issues professionally and within minimal business disruption.

Julie Leigh, Group Finance Director, Ego Restaurants Ltd

HR support from Browne Jacobson is always prompt, reliable, and authoritative and supports the standards agenda. It is reassuring to know that the HR advice we are given is always supported by employment lawyers.

Head teacher

what the directories say...

They are strategic in their approach, very tactical and accessible to their clients; they are a pleasure to work with.

Chambers 2017

I have great confidence in their legal advice and am very happy with the service and the speed with which they turn around enquiries.

Chambers 2017

The employment team is 'especially noted for its healthcare and insurance-industry expertise'.

Legal 500 2016

They have a good way of simplifying complex matters and they understand our business and what we want.

Chambers 2016

Browne Jacobson LLP’s key clients include Wolverhampton City Council, Hiscox and Novozymes. It has a strong public sector client base, and leverages the firm’s excellent reputation in the education sector to act for over 200 schools nationally. Peter Jones leads the firm’s national employment practice.

Legal 500 2015

recent experience

Advising a local authority on the employment law implications of a major restructure of their workforce - working with the head of legal and democratic services to advise on constitutional and local government issues, standing orders and monitoring officer requirements, resulting in favourable terms to those made redundant and zero claims made to employment tribunal.
Managing a large scale redundancy to bring stability to a client's business - We advising on the process and subsequent claims, ensuring a fair process was followed in the selection of individuals for potential redundancy.
Acting for numerous schools and academies, in defending equal pay claims inherited from local authorities; including working with local authority legal teams to avoid duplication of effort, identifying which claims should be settled and which c could be successfully resisted and providing representation for the schools at numerous case management discussions and pre-hearing reviews.
Defeating an application for interim relief in a whistle-blowing claim - we successfully identified relevant documents and prepared a lengthy witness statement which was sufficient to defeat the application.

our people

related opinions

Across the board increase in injury to feelings awards

The 'Vento bands' have long prescribed the level of award to be made for injury to feelings in harassment and discrimination claims. The Court of Appeal has recently confirmed that the uplift does apply in the decision of De Souza v Vinci Construction (UK) Ltd.

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New Right to Work Guidance issued by UKVI

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has once again published updated guidance on the prevention of illegal working. This replaces the 2016 version, although the previous guidance will still apply to those employed between 12 July 2016 and 8 August 2017.

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Employment tribunal fees - dealing with the uncertainty

Whilst celebrated by claimants and their representatives, the Supreme Court’s Decision to quash employment tribunal fees has left much uncertainty.

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A Part 36 flavoured word of warning for failure to mediate…

In Marsh v Ministry of Justice (2017) a claimant who had succeeded in his personal injury claim against the Ministry of Justice was awarded not only costs of trial on the indemnity basis, but also additional costs under CPR 36.17 because the MoJ had refused to engage in mediation.

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