About

I have worked as an employment lawyer for more than six years, including 10 months on secondment in an international in-house role.

I advise organisations on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues in both GB & NI, covering the day-to-day employment issues and the more extraordinary queries too!

I have a particular focus on industrial relations, providing strategic international advice and the employment elements of pensions questions. I have experience of advising on employment law issues in EMEA, LATAM and APAC, working with multi-national clients on the project management of international advice, cross border restructuring and outsourcing projects. I am passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and founded the Inter Faith group at Lewis Silkin.

Experience

Employment

  • Advising clients on core employment issues including redundancies (collective and individual), changes to terms and conditions, TUPE transfers (commercial terms and implementation), managing employee grievance / disciplinary / sickness absence processes, modern slavery statements, employee handbooks & policies and flexible working
  • Managing litigation and advising on settlement and conciliation, responding to claim forms, drafting witnesses statements, instructing counsel and preparing trial bundles
  • Providing client training including harassment, data protection issues, and collective processes (redundancy and TUPE)

International Employment

  • Managing international projects including outsourcing and collective redundancy processes
  • Working closely with our international alliance to support clients across APAC, EMEA and LATAM on day-to-day employment queries or multijurisdictional projects
  • Advising on the implementation of European Directives including the Whistleblowing Directive and Pay Transparency Directive

Industrial relations

  • Advising clients in relation to trade unions including collective bargaining, consultation on pension changes, trade union recognition, industrial relations strategies and strike injunctions
  • Advising on the establishment of European Works Councils and supporting clients on their engagement with employee representatives

Services