Employment Associate

The role

Bates Wells is seeking an Employment Associate with 4+ years of PQE to join their London-based team. This role focuses on complex and ground-breaking employment litigation and advice, with a particular emphasis on clients in the charity, not-for-profit, and social enterprise sectors.

What you'll do

• Work across a broad range of contentious and advisory employment matters, including discrimination and equality issues
• Handle whistleblowing cases
• Manage grievances, disciplinary and performance issues
• Deal with board level disputes
• Advise on TUPE and business reorganisation
• Conduct sensitive and complex workplace investigations
• Manage redundancies, restructures and organisational change
• Address complex employee and industrial relations issues, including collective disputes and trade union matters
• Advise on employment status, worker and volunteer issues
• Deliver training
• Supervise junior fee earners
• Contribute to business development
• Work cross-departmentally through wide range of strong sector groups
• Co-manage client relationships with partners
• Support the development of recently qualified lawyers
• Be involved in the development of the department’s strategy

What we're looking for