When a charity was faced with disability discrimination and unfair dismissal claims, we successfully defended them in the Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal.
We’ll manage your issues in a way that feels true to your values.
When it comes to employment issues, knowing the law isn’t enough. We know you need practical advice and outcomes-focused solutions.
Our clients include not-for-profit, voluntary sector and public sector employers. We also work with a wide range of businesses, from employment agencies and care providers to publishers, leading retailers and advertisers.
Clients come to us because we understand how to strike the right balance between protecting their business and staying true to their values.
How we help
- Contracts: drafting, reviewing and varying contracts of employment and executive service agreements, disciplinary and grievance procedures, staff handbooks and policies and staff pension schemes
- Data protection law
- Departures, termination payments and settlement agreements
- Whistleblowing, public interest and social media issues
- Discrimination
- Employees outside the UK
- Employment status: employees, self-employed, casual workers, agency staff, volunteers, work placements, interns
- Maternity, paternity and parental leave, flexible working, employee benefits, national minimum wage and health and safety
- Partnership disputes and director and shareholder disputes
- Redundancies, collective consultations and redundancy payments
- Restrictions/team moves: restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements and garden leave
- Transfers; everything required under TUPE including keeping staff informed, sharing employee liability information, doing due diligence, and restructuring.
- Unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and constructive dismissal
- Working time (holiday pay) and sleep-ins
- Bonuses and deferred remuneration, long-term incentives and golden handshake
To learn about our pricing for defending unfair and wrongful dismissal claims, please click here.
Our reputation
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The team takes time to get to know the client, to be able to provide tailored and commercially relevant advice.
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They are competent, attentive and always striving to provide the best service that they can
Case Studies
A leading hedge fund, structured as a Limited Liability Partnership, uncovered evidence that a senior partner was preparing to leave the partnership and set up in competition along with junior members of his team. We advised the LLP on expulsion of the senior partner and successfully obtained injunctive relief and damages. We also recovered and secured the LLP’s confidential and proprietary information and prevented the senior partner from competing against the LLP.
Our Employment Team
Recommendations
William Garnett and his employment law team at Bates Wells have consistently delivered pragmatic advice that takes a balanced view between the strict letter of the law and the practical realities of business situations
Chambers 2021
