Breesha LoughranAssociate

I act for a range of commercial clients, varying from SMEs to large household name corporates, across a variety of sectors including retail, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing and engineering.

My key responsibilities include:

• providing strategic advice to businesses on day-to-day HR issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, poor performance, sickness absence and redundancies;

• assisting employers in defending Employment Tribunal claims, including claims of unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, discrimination and whistleblowing;

• drafting, reviewing and advising on contracts of employment, service agreements, consultancy agreements and HR policies;

• conducting settlement negotiations and drafting and advising on settlement agreements; and

• assisting with workplace investigations into HR issues such as bullying, harassment and discrimination.

Recent examples of how I have supported clients includes:

• successfully achieving early withdrawals of a number of Employment Tribunal claims for a well-known fast food chain;

• successfully defending an Employment Appeal Tribunal claim in relation to the extent of an employer’s disclosure duties;

• assisting a multinational client in the entertainment industry in carrying out a sensitive investigation into allegations of harassment and discrimination in the workplace;

• assisting in the delivery of advice to employees involved in a mass settlement agreement process involving thousands of individuals employed by one of the UK’s largest airlines; and

• delivering bespoke training sessions to the management team of a household name client on equality, disciplinary and grievances, absence management, performance management and recruitment.