Nigel Mackay
Partner
Nigel Mackay is a leading employment and discrimination lawyer.
Nigel’s practice focuses on representing senior executives and professionals, as well as acting on individual and group employee rights and trade union claims.
Nigel has particular expertise in advising board members, senior executives and other professionals relating to their employment issues. This includes advising clients on their employment contracts, restrictive covenants and bonus issues, including representing them in disputes in the High Court, as well as acting in high profile discrimination and whistleblowing claims in the employment tribunal. Nigel regularly advises senior executives in complex and high value severance negotiations.
Nigel has also been at the forefront of some of the most important recent cases brought on behalf of workers and trade union clients.
These include representing Uber drivers and the GMB trade union in their ground breaking claim against Uber, including before the Supreme Court.
As well this, Nigel represents other groups of workers in the gig economy, including couriers and drivers working for a number of well-known gig economy operators.
Nigel is the lead author of the book Employment Law and the Gig Economy, a principal legal text in this area.