Employment Advice

As an employer you are often faced with either challenges or obligations that require swift and practical legal advice. At Stoke White, we can assist with strategic and timely advice in all aspects of different employment relationships.

We can take care of all your employment requirements, including providing advice on procedures and protocol, compiling staff handbooks, and keeping you abreast of changes to employment and employment-related law.

Our solicitors can assist you with the following:

• drafting and negotiating employment contracts
• keeping you up to date with leave rights (maternity/paternity/adoption)
• employee immigration matters
• providing advice and remedy for whistle-blowers
• working with businesses to ensure that all employment contracts and policies are in place to protect your business
• assisting in disciplinary proceedings either in an advisory capacity or by coming in-house to manage the process
• implementing the correct procedures in the redundancy process

When things get more complicated for your business, we can also assist you with:

• business reorganisations
• acquisitions, disposals and TUPE transfers
• employment due diligence exercises on acquisitions
• drafting employment warranties and indemnities for business sale agreements.

Our expert team can also advise senior employees regarding both entry and exit negotiations, redundancy, gardening leave and post- termination restrictions for banks and corporates.