Employment Senior Associate

The successful candidate will be involved in cutting edge work and there will be plenty of scope for networking and marketing. The role will suit an outgoing person and through our bespoke employment training and regular updates they will have the opportunity to lead on these sessions. The team also has a strong interface with the Corporate, Commercial, CDR and Construction teams.

National Employment Department Key Facts

• Operates a dedicated training service – Hammonds In-Tuition – that brings real-life training scenarios to HR professionals
• Operates a dedicated extranet for HR managers
• Run quarterly seminar programme entitled "Employment Law Essentials"
• Hammonds HRplus - HR consultancy division
• Write the Employment Law and Practice handbook on behalf of ICSA and contribute regularly to The Mail on Sunday, Personnel Today and People Management

Expertise

The practice deals exclusively with all employment law issues including:
• Service agreements
• Other contracts of employment and staff handbooks
• Workplace policies (e.g. stress, bullying, email usage)
• Maternity and parental leave rights
• Sex, race and disability discrimination
• Underperformance, sickness and misconduct procedures
• Boardroom disputes and severance claims
• Employment litigation in the courts and tribunals.
• Data protection
• Whistleblowing
• Equal pay
• Large-scale redundancies and business re-organisations
• TUPE issues
• Work permits and immigration issues
• EU law and human rights

The Birmingham Employment team currently consists of 3 Partners, 3 Associates, 3 Lawyers, and 1 PSL.