Associate - Employment

The role

Howard Kennedy is seeking an experienced Associate to join their Employment practice group in London. This role involves advising clients on a wide range of UK employment law matters, encompassing both contentious and non-contentious issues for businesses across various sectors.

What you'll do

• Advise clients on a broad range of strategic, contentious, non-contentious and advisory UK employment law matters
• Advise on worker status and atypical workers’ rights
• Advise on disciplinary and grievance processes
• Advise on capability processes and managing employee ill-health and absence
• Advise on pay, bonuses, incentives and remuneration rights
• Secure employee business confidentiality and customer information protection, and enforcement of post-termination restrictions including fiduciary obligations
• Advise on workforce management in redundancy and reorganisation programmes
• Support cross-jurisdictional workforce projects
• Advise on discrimination and harassment matters
• Advise on dismissals and employment termination
• Advise on statutory rights and enforcement in Employment Tribunals and appeal courts, including bringing and defending claims
• Advise on whistleblowing matters and related claims
• Handle High Court employment claims and enforcement actions, including injunctions
• Conduct workplace investigations
• Advise on the employment aspects of M&A and commercial property transactions
• Manage the full scope of employment-related transactional work, including due diligence, drafting employment provisions, assessing employment-related liabilities, and advising on benefits, incentives and bonus arrangements
• Negotiate senior-level exits and retention arrangements
• Advise financial services clients on remuneration structures, the scope and application of SMCR, conduct rule breaches, fitness and propriety assessments, and regulatory references
• Draft and advise on the enforcement of post-termination restrictions, warranties and indemnities
• Advise on board-level matters, including directors’ duties and director and shareholder disputes
• Draft employment contracts, service agreements and workplace policies
• Advise on partnership and LLP matters and related claims
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the firm, including corporate, tax, dispute resolution, reputation management, business crime and regulatory, and immigration, to provide a seamless client service
• Continuously develop knowledge and expertise in employment law, including contributing to team and firm training
• Contribute to the team’s and firm’s marketing and business development initiatives
• Contribute to a respectful, inclusive and supportive team environment

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