Employment law solicitors in Edgeware, Burnt Oak, and Colindale
Employment law consists of a critical area of our work.
We have an employment law team, which includes employment law specialist barrister Kevin Harris (called to the Bar in 1999), Stephen Jarrett (an experienced HR consultant) and other fee earners.
We are a firm of solicitors with offices close to Edgeware HA8, Burnt Oak HA8 0BN and Colindale NW9 – at 212 Regents Park Road, Finchley Central, N3.
This is nearby to Henley’s Corner on The North Circular road, and close to the A1/A41.
employment law work
We undertake employment law work for both employers and employees.
We set out below examples of the type of work we have carried out.
- Representation in relation to Employment Tribunal claims for both employers and employees. This includes claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, sex, race and disability discrimination.
- Defending employees to whom it is proposed to make redundant and/or who have been placed upon performance management.
- Representing employees who are subject to long-term sickness issues.
- Representing employees who are suffering from work-related stress/depression including caused as a result of micro-management, bullying/harassment by their line manager, or through excessive hours of work.
- Representing self-employed staff including exercising their statutory rights including in relation to their true legal status, and discrimination rights.
- Representing employees who are pregnant and/or on maternity leave, including against proposals to make them redundant.
- Representing employers in the preparation of employment contracts and self-employed contracts for staff members.
- Representing both employers and employees in relation to non-compete and confidentiality covenants/obligations including drafting these and representing parties in litigation in relation to the latter in the High Court and/or in the County Court.
- Through our HR consultant undertaking HR consultancy work including advising in relation to disciplinary and redundancy procedures and dealing with redundancies and work-related grievances etc.
Settlement Agreements
We sign off a number of these for employees every week and are very experienced in relation to this area of work.
We take our duties seriously and endeavour to provide a complete service including: –
- Advising employees as to their legal rights and the value of any claims.
- Giving advice in relation to the package offered and in particular whether there seems to be reasonable scope for negotiating an enhanced package.
- Advising upon the wording of the Agreement and as to amendments required to make the Agreement commercially acceptable to be signed off.
- Advising in relation to non-compete covenants and whether these should be waived or partially waived to enable the employee to secure new employment following the termination date.
- Providing advice to employees who are also directors and/or have shareholdings who as a result require special terms in the Agreement due to their status.
The cost of Settlement Agreements. It is common practice for the employers to set out in the Agreement a contribution towards costs. If the Agreement is signed off without any amendments this contribution would usually be sufficient. However, the amount of the contribution is negotiable as part of the negotiation to the wording/terms of the agreement and we always do our best to enhance the contribution where this should be reasonably necessary.
Instructing our firm
We are very approachable. We do not charge for initial telephone calls and can set up an initial fixed price meeting.
If your case is urgent, we will endeavour to see you upon the same day.
In relation to employees, we will consider, where appropriate, no win, no fee arrangements. In relation to employers, we will consider fixed fee agreements regarding the various stages of an Employment Tribunal claim.
To contact us please telephone 020 8446 6223 or email enquiries@sr-law.co.uk.