Employment law solicitors in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Employment law consists of a key area of our work.

We are a firm of solicitors with offices close to Hampstead Garden Suburb (NW11), Hampstead (NW3) and Highgate (N10 & N19) – at 212 Regents Park Road, Finchley Central, N3. We are very close to Henley’s Corner upon the North Circular Road.

There is Street Parking within the vicinity of our office- including Cyprus Road (save between 2 pm and 3 pm).

We have an employment law team, which includes employment law specialist barrister Kevin Harris (called to the Bar in 1999), an experienced HR consultant and other fee earners.

We undertake employment law work for both employers and employees.

Employment law Work

We set out below examples of the work we have carried out.

Representation in relation to Employment Tribunal claims. This includes claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, sex and disability discrimination.
Raising employment-related claims in the High and County Courts – including breach of contract claims and injunctions in relation to non-compete covenants and breach of confidentiality obligations.
Defending employees whom it is proposed to make redundant and/or who have been placed upon performance management.
Representing employees who are absent upon long-term sick leave.
Representing employees who are suffering from work-related stress/depression including from 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 holidays and holiday pay and claims for discrimination.
Representing employees who are pregnant and/or upon maternity leave- in particular in relation to 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 covenants and confidentiality obligations including drafting these and representing parties in related litigation in the High Court and/or in the County Court.
Through our HR consultant undertaking law HR consultancy work including advising in relation to disciplinary and redundancy procedures and dealing with grievances.

Instructing our firm

We are very approachable. We do not charge for initial telephone calls and can set up an initial fixed price meeting.

In relation to employees, we will consider, where appropriate, no win, no fee arrangements.

In relation to employers, we will also consider a fixed fee agreement concerning various stages of an Employment Tribunal claim.

Settlement Agreements in relation to Employees

We undertake a number of these every week and are very experienced with regard to this 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 concerning the package offered and in particular whether there appears to be a reasonable scope for negotiating an enhanced termination package.
Advising upon the wording of the Agreement 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 reasonably obtain new employment following the termination of their employment.
Providing advice to employees who are also directors and/or have shareholdings who need 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.

In particular, amending the Agreement will usually take about an hour/1 hour 15 minutes and so may not be completed covered where there is a relatively low-cost contribution offered by the employer.

To contact us please telephone 020 8446 6223 or email enquiries@sr-law.co.uk.

Employment law solicitors in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Employment law Work

Contact Simons Rodkin Solicitors LLP

Finchley Office

Bloomsbury Office

Hatfield Office