Our Legal Services in Gloucester
UK employment law gives employees clearly defined rights and employers must ensure they are meeting their legal obligations towards their employees. Our employment law solicitors in Gloucester can help employers to ensure they are treating their employees fairly, as well as advising employees who need to assert their rights.
At WSP Solicitors, we can offer fast, pragmatic employment law advice for employers and employees. With our guidance, many potential issues can be avoided through good planning and sensible policies. Any employment disputes that do arise can typically be resolved swiftly and cost-effectively with minimal disruption.
Whether you are an employer looking to comply with employment law, an employee who needs advice about your rights or on either side of an employment dispute, our employment solicitors in Gloucester can help you find the right way forward.
To discuss your employment law needs with a member of our team, please contact our Gloucester office.
Our employment solicitors in Gloucester can advise on matters including:
Every situation is unique, which is why it is so important to have specific legal advice from specialist employment law solicitors. Our team will carefully review your situation including all relevant factors and making sure any risks are taken into account. You can then be confident that you understand your position and can take effective action.
You can benefit from our expertise across all areas of UK employment law, with our team offering a comprehensive service for both employers and employees, no matter how challenging the situation you are facing.
Employment disputes can be costly, time-consuming, stressful and harmful to your reputation. Many disputes can be avoided with the right support in advance but, where you are dealing with a dispute, we can use negotiation and alternative dispute resolution to find a fair outcome quickly, cost-effectively and privately in most cases.
We will always advise you of our employment law solicitors’ fees in advance by providing a transparent quote. Certain matters can be completed on a fixed fee basis, providing complete certainty over costs.
For friendly expert employment law advice, please contact our Gloucester office. Our employment lawyers will be happy to discuss your requirements and how we can help.
Alternatively, you can use our online enquiry form to ask a question and a member of the team will get back to you promptly.
While employment disputes cannot always be avoided, many can be headed off or resolved at an early stage with a settlement agreement. Our employment solicitors in Gloucester can assist employers with drafting and negotiating settlement agreements, either in anticipation of a possible employment claim or to settle a claim an employee has brought.
Where a dispute cannot be settled, we can also support employers with preparing for employment tribunals as well as providing tribunal representation.
Good employment contracts are essential for creating productive relationships with employees, as are related documents, such as employee handbooks. They can help to set expectations and provide strong recourse for an employer if a problem occurs.
Our employment solicitors can draft these documents for employers as well as reviewing your existing documents, either to identify any potential issues or in response to a particular matter.
Clear employment policies and procedures can make it much easier for employers to have confidence that they are treating their employees fairly and in full compliance with the law.
Our employment solicitors can assist employers with policies and procedures in relation to issues such as recruitment, equality, diversity and discrimination, flexible working, health and safety, data protection / GDPR, and disciplinary matters and grievances.
Getting the best out of your team is not always straightforward. Employers have to be careful that any performance issues are handled in the right way, especially where there may be concerns about issues such as potential discrimination claims.
Our employment law solicitors can devise legally sound performance management processes as well as advising on specific performance management issues.
Making redundancies and transferring employees to a different business may be necessary, especially where a business is facing financial difficulties. Employers in these situations have to be very careful as there is a risk of employment claims if the process is not handled correctly.
We can provide expert employment advice for employers considering making redundancies or transferring employees under TUPE. Our experts can help you to follow the right steps to minimise the risk of any employment claims while allowing you to achieve the result you need.
Employers are well advised to regularly review their key employment documents, including contracts, handbook policies and procedures. These must be kept up to date with any changes to the law and the changing needs of the business.
Our team can review individual documents or your entire range of employment documents. We can then identify any possible issues and bring the documents up to date.
Whistleblowing must be handled very carefully by employers. Our experts can advise on how to respond, including what action you can take with respect to a whistleblowing employee.
Our HR Retainer service allows businesses to have access to our employment law expertise as and when they need it. This can be an excellent fit for those businesses without their own in-house HR experts or where their HR team needs a little extra support.
We can advise employees on their rights and assist with raising concerns about matters including discrimination, harassment and other grievances. If you have been offered a settlement agreement, we can provide an independent review of this for you and advise on whether we think the agreement is fair or if a better settlement is possible.
Should you need to take your claim to an employment tribunal, we can help you with preparing your case and provide tribunal representation if required.
If you have been dismissed from your job or forced to resign due to unfair treatment by your employer, our team can help. We can advise on whether you may have grounds to claim unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal or constructive dismissal, then support you throughout the entire claims process.
Our experts can provide employment law advice for employees or redundancy and transfers of employment under TUPE. We can help to ensure you are treated fairly during these processes and, where appropriate, assist in making an employment claim for unfair treatment.
We can provide employment law advice for employees covering matters such as the terms of their contracts of employment and specific clauses, including restrictive covenants.
If you are unclear about your parental leave rights or believe your employer is not respecting those rights, we can provide clear guidance on what you are entitled to and your options to protect that entitlement.
We can support employees who wish to request flexible working or predictable working hours. We can also advise employees who have had such requests denied and who want to explore their options.
Whistleblowers should ideally seek legal advice before raising a concern to ensure they are protected as best as possible. Our team can advise and support whistleblowers, helping them to expose problems in the right way.
For friendly expert employment law advice, please contact our Gloucester office. Our employment lawyers will be happy to discuss your requirements and how we can help.
Alternatively, you can use our online enquiry form to ask a question and a member of the team will get back to you promptly.
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