Employment

Practice Areas

Employment 
Overview

We specialise in all areas of employment law and can advise you on all matters –contentious and non-contentious.

Areas covered:

All HR issues
Work discrimination
Performance management and termination
Employment litigation and disputes
Redundancy
Collective consultation and employee relations
Mergers and acquisitions
Restrictive covenants and team moves
TUPE and corporate restructuring.

Our team has extensive experience of dealing with complex and reputationally-sensitive issues and providing clients with focused solutions aimed at mitigating risk.

We work with clients industry-wide. Over the years, we have forged strong relations within the corporate, marketing, hospitality and media sectors, thanks to our experience of dealing with key industry-specific issues, including Tronc, employee share options, IP and creative disputes, ER and employee incentive schemes.

As a result of our extensive insight and expertise, pragmatic approach and dedication to working to the highest standard, we are widely recognised as being industry leaders. We are the in-house employment law commentators for Raconteur, and are often called upon by the likes of The Times, Talk Radio, Talk TV and Channel 5 to comment on the very latest employment law issues.

Service Highlights

Please click on a service highlight to learn more about how we help with these matters. If you have any questions or would like to discuss further, you can contact us using the contact form below.

Employment contracts & self-employment arrangements

We advise, negotiate and prepare employment contracts for all types of working arrangements.
Settlement agreements

We draft settlement agreements for employers and provide employees with independent advice on the terms and effect of their agreement.
Disciplinary, grievance & other internal procedures

We advise on all employment policies and procedures. This includes statutory rights, as well as standard and bespoke working practices.
Unfair dismissal & wrongful dismissal

We advise and act on behalf of employers and employees for unfair dismissal and wrongful dismissal claims. Our experience spans employment tribunals, civil court cases (e.g. sports employment) and arbitration.
Redundancy

We support you through the entire redundancy process from a procedural and a substantive perspective. We also inform you of any potential resulting disputes that may arise.
Employee rights & director’s duties

We provide expert legal guidance in relation to statutory and contractual rights and duties and obligations (express and implied).
Breach of contract

We advise on breaches of contract that extend beyond wrongful dismissal/notice-related matters. For example, disputes regarding bonus and commission entitlements.
TUPE transfers

We not only advise on the non-contentious aspects that can arise from transactions or from service provision changes of any nature (typically tendering), we also advise on TUPE-related litigation.
Restrictive covenants

We explore and advise on the applicability and enforceability of restrictive covenants. This could be: at the point of contract negotiation; during re-organisation or following termination, and during any subsequent disputes.
Discrimination

We advise and act for employers, employees, non-employee workers, self-employed consultants and partners/partnerships in relation to all aspects of unlawful discrimination – i.e. covered by the Equality Act 2010 or wider legislation concerning statutory protections, such as part-time and flexible working.

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Richard Berry

Partner, Head of Employment

Richard is the Head of Burlingtons’ Employment and Immigration Department and has been a practising solicitor since 2010. Richard was…
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