Employment & immigration

Our national team of specialist lawyers provide excellent client service and legal advice across all employment and immigration matters, whether for corporate clients, where our focus is on improving their business in innovative and forward thinking ways, or supporting high net worth individuals on their personal requirements.

There is not much that our national team of experienced specialists has not seen before, meaning they are well placed to deliver cost-effective, strategic and commercial advice aimed at improving your business or meeting your personal requirements. We pride ourselves on investing time to fully understand your objectives meaning we can deliver the support you need, when you need it most, so you can achieve your goals.

Our regular updates and briefings provide a painless way to keep up to speed on all employment and immigration developments. Empowering managers is essential for operational effectiveness and our bespoke training courses are the ideal way to develop your management population’s skills and capability, whilst our unique range of innovative products provide cost-effective solutions to your HR issues. Whatever your requirements, we can provide tailored, innovative and practical advice, strategies and solutions.

As well as guiding you or your HR department through the everyday employment and immigration issues that arise, we also regularly deliver products and services across a number of specialist areas, (as detailed in our specialism pages above). Through working closely with our HR Consult teams, we have a clear focus and goal in helping you to improve your business.

Our specialist pensions, health and safety and employee benefits teams are also at your service as part of our integrated approach.

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Effect a collective redundancy consultation

In certain redundancy situations, there are additional steps which an employer should go through to ensure compliance with its collective consultation obligations. This guide sets out the key legal and practical issues for businesses to be aware of.

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Achieve a successful senior executive termination

Terminating the employment of a senior executive can be a challenging process. A combination of employment, corporate and tax issues can all influence how the situation should be handled, particularly if disruption to the business is to be minimised. This guide sets out the key legal and practical issues for businesses to be aware of.

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How to handle sexual harassment in the workplace

Following the #MeToo movement, it is important that employers’ adopt a proactive and robust approach to dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace. This guide sets out the key legal and practical issues for businesses to be aware of.

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Effect an individual redundancy consultation

Regardless of whether there is an obligation to consult collectively, when contemplating redundancy dismissals, the employer will need to ensure that it has followed a fair procedure in relation to affected individuals, including consulting with them properly, so as to minimise the risk of claims for unfair dismissal. This guide sets out the key legal and practical issues for businesses too be aware of.

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