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Our employment law solicitors regularly act for a wide range of businesses to assist them in the handling of all manner of HR issues. If an internal issue has grown to a potential legal issue, it is important to seek expert knowledge as soon as possible. Our teams can provide this along with professional support to protect your business.
Free Employment Law Advice for HR Teams
We offer our free initial phone call to both employers and employees. In this call you can outline your issue, and we will advise on the best way forward. Whatever your employment law issue, we can help.
Outline Contracts of Employment
It is important to outline contract of employment with a solid understanding of employment law. Our teams can tailor contract to your business which make sure you are compliant, all legal requirements are met and that your business interests are protected for a fixed fee.
Mitigate Employment Disputes
For your peace of mind and your business’ best interest, it is important to mitigate and avoid employment disputes. Our teams are experts at dealing with issues before they grow and end up going to tribunal. If your business doesn’t have the legal insight internally, we can provide this directly to you.
Support for Employment Law Issues
We can advise on all areas of employment law and general HR matters, including:
- Business reorganisation & TUPE transfers
- Dismissal and redundancy
- Contracts of employment
- Policies, procedures, and staff handbooks
- Directors’ duties
- Restrictive covenants
- Employment tribunal claims
- Managing sick leave
- Maternity and paternity rights
- Equal Opportunities
Whatever employment Law issue you have, our teams can advise. We work for your business to protect profits and shield the reputation from the damage a legal battle can create. Fill in our form below to organise a callback.
Avoid Employment Tribunal
Wherever possible, our employment solicitors work to avoid cases going to employment tribunal to skip the stress and hassle this can bring. Our primary aim is to get our clients a settlement.
Employment Tribunal Representation
If a case does go to employment tribunal, we continue to provide legal representation. Choose us to be backed by experienced and methodical employment solicitors to back your best interests.
Full Compliance
It can be tricky to navigate employment law and there are many laws you need to be in compliance with. Our solicitors make sure that you are staying compliant and have robust systems in place to avoid employment tribunals. The key to our service is staying up to date with recent changes to the law and cases where laws have been applied to certain cases.
Put the Right Policies & Procedures in Place
Having the correct policies in place can protect you from a number of legal cases. We can provide assistance creating these policies and writing up sound legal documents that cover your business in a number of situations. It is vital for employees to understand what is expected of them and set rules and regulations that cover every situation.
Understanding Non-disclosure and Non-compete Agreements
Your business might have a secret formula or way of doing things a certain way in any number of industries and you will want to protect this. You are legally allowed to ask employees to sign both documents when they sign a contract with you.
Non-disclosure Agreements require a employee to not disclose any details of how a business complete processes and can be used to protect intellectual property. Non-compete Agreements ensures that employees do not offer competing services whilst working with you or do not immediately go and work for a competing company. We can help you to draft these in compliance with the law for a fixed fee.
Why choose Sternberg Reed as your Employment Laws Solicitors?
We are both practical and compassionate understanding when dealing with employment law issues. Our teams understand the core of your issues and provide practical advice tailored to the situation.
Highly Recommended
We are highly recommended by our business clients for:
- Responding quickly to queries by both phone and e-mail. If the query can be simply and quickly answered, we do so without making a charge.
- Understanding the business pressures our employer clients face, day in, day out. Cost effectiveness is essential, and for any piece of work we are instructed to undertake, we will provide an estimate in advance and stick to it.
- Preparing appropriate draft letters for our clients to use within an hour or two of being instructed.
- Giving clear advice and not “sitting on the fence” like a lot of other lawyers tend to do.
- Having a flexible approach. We are happy to run whole projects on our client’s behalf or simply fill in the gaps where required.
- Being experts in the field of Employment Law, with a proven track record in successfully acting for our employer clients.
Experienced Employment Solicitors
We have been working as professional employment law solicitors for businesses across London, Essex, and Kent for over forty years. This means we hold a range of experience and expert knowhow which can be applied to several business situations.
Fees and Funding
It is difficult to offer “menu pricing” in respect of our fees. In our experience, no two claims are alike, and all claims will have a different final cost. What must be considered is that a case for an employer may be satisfactorily resolved with an incredibly low initial cost. To comply with the Solicitors Regulation Authority – the SRA – you can find a “menu pricing” on our dedicated employment law fees page.
Our Approach
Having worked with many business owners and HR Professionals, we know first-hand how disruptive legals battles can be for businesses owners. Our approach is responsive and practical because we want your business to get back to normal as soon as possible.
Our Work
We work across industries and business sizes, delivering employment law advice in a straightforward and responsive manner. You can trust us to support your business moving past any legal issues involving staff.
Our Clients
We work with clients with a range of employment law knowledge. Whether you are a business owner navigating employment law for the first time, a HR professional dealing with an issue at work or a legal professional working in a business looking for support in decision-making, we are here for you. From startups to SMEs to Large businesses, there is always a need for employment solicitors to protect your business and harbour future growth.
Employment Solicitors for Businesses FAQs
Yes, if you are an employer, you have legal responsibilities for anyone working for you.
UK employment law covers dismissal, holidays, pay, any types of discrimination, harassment, grievances and more.
You should review these annually, or if there are changes to employment laws. Otherwise, you can change them when an employee’s pay or hours change
Yes, if there has been any change to an employment contract you should give the employee ample time to check through the contract before asking them to resign their contract.
