Employment
Our range of services includes:
- Employment advisory: We advise on all the day to day employment issues clients encounter. We also handle formal legal requirements: the preparation and negotiation of employment contracts, be it standard form templates or bespoke contracts for senior executives; secondment arrangements (domestic and overseas); the implementation and operation of policies and handbooks; collective redundancies, relocations and TUPE transfers, including those with an international dimension; the conduct of disciplinary and grievance procedures; and negotiating settlement deals and their associated compromise agreements.
- Litigation and dispute resolution: We have a thriving practice contesting Employment Tribunal claims for our clients as well as regularly advising on restrictive covenant disputes, contested team moves and wrongful dismissal claims in the High Court. We settle an increasing number of employment disputes for our clients through formal mediation.
- Corporate: We advise on the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and outsourcing arrangements, collective redundancies and TUPE transfers.
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"This firm has established itself as a premier adviser... Sources say: 'consistently commercial and sensible'."
Chambers UK 2010
"Macfarlanes LLP offers ‘advice that is always very commercial, delivered quickly, and empathetic’.... ‘Epitomising the firm’s “can-do” attitude’, Seán Lavin and Dan Lavender are recommended."
The UK Legal 500 2009