Employment & pensions

Related Groups

"Clients value the team’s ability to “put across complex points of law in an easy-to-understand manner”."
Chambers & Partners 2006/7

Services

Employment services include:

  • contracts of employment
  • employer handbooks, policies and procedures
  • discrimination and anti-discrimination policies relating to sex, age, disability and sexual orientation
  • unfair dismissal and redundancy
  • compromise agreements and severance packages
  • employment tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Session proceedings
  • the TUPE Regulations and corporate/business reorganisations and transfers
  • Working Time Regulations
  • Data Protection Act

Pensions services include:

  • scheme documentation
  • trustee arrangements
  • sex discrimination
  • trustees’ duties and powers
  • scheme amendments
  • pensions aspects of acquisitions and disposals
  • scheme mergers and transfers
  • winding up schemes