Abi Frederick

Legal Director, Lewis Silkin LLP

I specialise in all types of “non-standard” employment and engagement models, contingent workforce issues and providing international employment law advice. I also provide employment law advice to Japanese companies in the UK, in both English and Japanese.

I have more than 15 years' experience advising employers on all aspects of employment law, ranging from contracts of employment and handbooks, complex grievances, disciplinaries, discrimination, redundancies and reorganisations, sickness, TUPE, dismissals and litigation.

My clients come from a range sectors including technology, finance, manufacturing and the recruitment sector.

Contributed to

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Agreement—Solicitor apprenticeship agreement

Precedents

This Precedent is an approved English apprenticeship agreement for use in relation to the apprenticeship standard for a Solicitor Apprentice, Level 7. It is an apprentice’s contract of employment (contract of service) and not a contract of apprenticeship. It contains all required Employment Rights Act 1996, s 1 written statement of particulars of employment, and meets the requirements of section A1 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009. It covers appointment, duties, the apprenticeship standard, training and assessment, probation, hours, salary, place of work, mobility, holiday, sickness, discipline, grievances, pension, expenses, benefits, termination, confidential information, data protection and monitoring, variation and change. It is in agreement form (can be adapted to letter format). It contains no post-termination restrictions (restrictive covenants), but additional clauses can be added.

Employment