• Contracts: drafting employment and consultancy agreements, manning agency and crew contracts, and updating staff handbooks and policies

• Employee incentives: advising on golden hellos, bonus schemes, share options, pensions and other benefits

• Workplace disputes: advising on disciplinary and grievance proceedings

• Redundancies: handling both small- and large-scale redundancies, including consultation requirements

• Wrongful and unfair dismissal: negotiating and drafting severance packages, including taxation advice

• Litigation: both in the High Court and before employment tribunals

• Employee rights: advising on employee rights, including maternity and parental rights, working time, data protection, the national minimum wage and rights for fixed-term and part-time workers

• Health and safety at work: drafting and management of health and safety policies, including advice on risk assessments; and management of sickness absence and work-related stress

• Boardroom disputes: advising on directors’ fiduciary, statutory and contractual duties, as well as on articles of association and shareholders’ agreements; and handling senior executive terminations

• Transfer of undertakings: advising on TUPE implications of business transfers, reorganisations and outsourcing, including collective consultation and post-integration issues

• Restrictive covenants and confidentiality: drafting effective non-compete and other restrictive covenants; and handling and seeking to prevent team moves including breach of confidence, garden leave and restraint of trade injunctions in the High Court

• Discrimination: avoiding and defending claims of discrimination and harassment/bullying, including claims on grounds of race, sex, age and disability

• Trade unions: advising on official and unofficial strikes and other industrial action, including ITF issues, trade union recognition and negotiation of collective agreements

• Regulatory: advising on disciplinary and regulatory proceedings by trade associations, professional bodies and official agencies

• Advising on extraterritorial employment issues

• Advising on international secondments and repatriation

• We also provide a specialist business immigration advice service on the Points Based System:

• For employers - sponsor licensing, Certificates of Sponsorship etc

• Entry clearance (visa) applications for employees

• Applications for sole representatives, business persons and investors

• Applications for permanent residence and British citizenship

• Applications for family members and domestic workers

What we do Experience

• Advising on the employment issues related to a listed European company in connection with the acquisition of one company and the disposal of another company and the restructuring of a third company in connection with on-going joint venture agreements between our clients and a company in the P&O Group as a result of the take-over of that company.

• Acting on employment issues for a large European shipping company on establishing a US$450m joint venture with a listed Dubai entity.

• Acting for a European ferry operator on the employment issues in connection with their acquisition of a ro-ro vessel service operating in the Irish sea.

What we do Experience

• Contracts: drafting employment and consultancy agreements, manning agency and crew contracts, and updating staff handbooks and policies

• Employee incentives: advising on golden hellos, bonus schemes, share options, pensions and other benefits

• Workplace disputes: advising on disciplinary and grievance proceedings

• Redundancies: handling both small- and large-scale redundancies, including consultation requirements

• Wrongful and unfair dismissal: negotiating and drafting severance packages, including taxation advice

• Litigation: both in the High Court and before employment tribunals

• Employee rights: advising on employee rights, including maternity and parental rights, working time, data protection, the national minimum wage and rights for fixed-term and part-time workers

• Health and safety at work: drafting and management of health and safety policies, including advice on risk assessments; and management of sickness absence and work-related stress

• Boardroom disputes: advising on directors’ fiduciary, statutory and contractual duties, as well as on articles of association and shareholders’ agreements; and handling senior executive terminations

• Transfer of undertakings: advising on TUPE implications of business transfers, reorganisations and outsourcing, including collective consultation and post-integration issues

• Restrictive covenants and confidentiality: drafting effective non-compete and other restrictive covenants; and handling and seeking to prevent team moves including breach of confidence, garden leave and restraint of trade injunctions in the High Court

• Discrimination: avoiding and defending claims of discrimination and harassment/bullying, including claims on grounds of race, sex, age and disability

• Trade unions: advising on official and unofficial strikes and other industrial action, including ITF issues, trade union recognition and negotiation of collective agreements

• Regulatory: advising on disciplinary and regulatory proceedings by trade associations, professional bodies and official agencies

• Advising on extraterritorial employment issues

• Advising on international secondments and repatriation

• We also provide a specialist business immigration advice service on the Points Based System:

• For employers - sponsor licensing, Certificates of Sponsorship etc

• Entry clearance (visa) applications for employees

• Applications for sole representatives, business persons and investors

• Applications for permanent residence and British citizenship

• Applications for family members and domestic workers