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About Employment Law

We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten into the precious hours in your working day.

Starting employment

We cover recruitment, employment contracts, policies, handbooks and more. It’s not just contracts though. Other documents may regulate the employment relationship, such as policies, procedures and collective agreements.

Managing the employment relationship

Sickness and absence is a common occurrence in an employment relationship that brings up multiple legal issues. We offer a range of resources with practical guidance and legal considerations.

TUPE, outsourcing, share. and asset purchases

TUPE 2006 will likely apply when acquiring businesses through an asset purchase. You’ll need to consider due diligence, consultation obligations, employees and liabilities transferred to the buyer.

Stay on top of changes

We know that employment law is a fast-paced world and that staying on top of all the latest legal developments is a time-consuming job – add this to the time you spend carrying out research and tracking down the right precedents and you have really eaten

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Associated legal terms

Intellectual property

The trade secrets of an employer that are normally protected as registered trade marks, designs or copyright.

Protected characteristic

A protected characteristic is a personal attribute that the law shields from discrimination, harassment or victimisation in employment and in the provision of services and public functions. In England, Wales and Scotland, the term is defined in the Equality Act 2010 and covers age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. In Northern Ireland, there is no single equality statute; equivalent protection arises under multiple orders and Acts (for example, relating to sex, race, disability, religious belief and political opinion), and “protected characteristic” is used as a convenient umbrella term in practice.

In Ireland, the Employment Equality Acts and Equal Status Acts protect “discriminatory grounds” (such as gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, and membership of the Traveller community), which serve a similar function to protected characteristics.

Identifying the relevant protected characteristic is central to advising on discrimination claims, drafting policies, conducting equality impact assessments, and defending or bringing proceedings before tribunals and courts across the UK and Ireland.

Unfair dismissal

/ʌnˈfɛː/ /dɪsˈmɪsl/

The concept that an employer has not dismissed the employee for a potentially fair reason or under a fair procedure and as such the dismissal was unfair.
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