Louise McCartney

I mainly advise commercial, social enterprise and charity employer clients on employment law issues.  I can help with most aspects of the employment relationship from recruitment right through to termination and beyond.

I often advise about general employee-related issues such as statutory and contractual rights and obligations especially when there’s a dispute, undertaking disciplinary and grievance processes, and managing employee exits.

I enjoy helping with implementing restructures and redundancies, as well as other types of large-scale consultation exercises.

A lot of the work I do involves advising businesses about the employment issues that crop up when they’ve won (or lost) a service contract, or when they’re thinking of acquiring another business, merging or disposing of part of their operations.

But my clients also ask me about a whole range of other things besides employment law. They may just want to run something past me as a ‘sense check’. But even if it’s a specialist query and I don’t know the answer myself, I’ll probably know which of my colleagues to put them in touch with instead.