About

I specialise in contingent workforce issues and providing international employment law advice. I also provide employment law advice to Japanese companies in the UK, in both English and Japanese.

I have more than 15 years' experience advising employers on all aspects of employment law, ranging from contracts of employment and handbooks, complex grievances, disciplinaries, discrimination, redundancies and reorganisations, sickness, TUPE and dismissals.

My clients come from a range sectors including technology, finance, manufacturing and the recruitment sector.

Experience

Staff engagement models and contingent workforce

  • Providing advice on all aspects of employment status, including independent contractors, sole traders, IR35, worker status
  • Advising on compliance with the Conduct Regulations 2003 and Agency Workers Regulations 2010
  • Reviewing engagement documentation for contractor, agency and umbrella arrangements
  • Providing UK and international advice on complex engagement structures within the platform / gig economy sector, including employment status and labour supply regulatory issues

International Employment

  • Co-ordinating and providing strategic advice and step by step documentation relating to a proposed collective redundancy and restructure consultation process across Europe
  • Reviewing a consultancy agreement and devising an employment status risk analysis tool for use across six jurisdictions
  • Providing advice on performance management processes across 21 jurisdictions
  • Managing an international employment law helpdesk for a multinational client

Apprentices

  • Advising on all aspects of compliance when hiring, employing and terminating apprenticeship arrangements, including avoiding enhanced protections under a 'contract of apprenticeship'
  • Reviewing apprenticeship documentation such as apprenticeship agreements and training provider / employer commercial agreements

Japan Desk

  • Advising Japanese companies on all aspects of employing people in the UK, in both English and Japanese - having lived and worked in Japan for a number of years

Testimonials

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"Abi is a fantastic partner."
Chambers & Partners
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