Employment Law for Employees
In the event you experience or anticipate a dispute with your employer, our experienced employment law team can offer legal support to reach a resolution.
Our employment lawyers acknowledge that we spend much of our time at work and so if the employment relationship deteriorates, it can cause immeasurable upset. We look at things practically and aim to resolve issues in a way that is satisfactory to you. Because we work for employers too, we can anticipate or predict the next steps in any given process and can advise and respond accordingly. We avoid unnecessary jargon and only proceed with any given action with your authority.
We offer our personal Employment Law services in Walsall, Sutton Coldfield and Cannock but act for clients national and internationally and can hold meetings virtually.
Our areas of work include:
- Severance and/or settlement agreements. Both the terms of the agreement and the sums payable are often entirely negotiable. We don’t just advise on the terms and ‘sign it off’. We advise on whether the offer made is fair in the circumstances or whether you should expect more money or fairer terms. We can then negotiate those on your behalf if necessary
- Contracts of employment, their validity, and its terms
- Probation periods
- Rights to give and receive notice, including payments in lieu of notice and garden leave
- Self-employed contractor relationships and your rights
- Agency worker rights
- Apprenticeships
- Disputes on wages including holidays and holiday pay or Sunday working
- Commission and bonus schemes
- Pensions and auto-enrolment
- Intellectual property – when you create an idea, process or product and the ownership of what is created
- Your rights at work
- Flexible working, homeworking and hybrid working
- Performance management and capability procedures
- Sickness absence and the involvement of occupation health assessors or company appointed doctors
- Discrimination either during recruitment or employment on grounds of age, sex, disability, religion, belief or any characteristic mentioned in the Equality Act 2010
- Having reasonable adjustments made for people with physical or mental disabilities to assist them in the workplace
- Workplace bullying and harassment
- Whistleblowing- raising concerns about wrongdoing or unfairness
- Surveillance at work
- Redundancy and/or restructures
- Rights to receive a redundancy payment when that may not be offered
- Layoff and short time working
- Constructive dismissal
- Unfair dismissal claims for when you feel you have been dismissed without fair or proper cause, or without following the required process
- Guidance on disciplinary proceedings and how to respond appropriately to allegations made or to challenge the process adopted or evidence supplied by your employer
- Overlapping disciplinary procedures and grievances and/or resignations
- Representation in Employment Tribunal claims
- Help and direction when things just don’t feel fair or right
- Adoption, surrogacy, IVF and family related lave including maternity, paternity, shared parental leave or time off for dependent and parental leave
- Queries relating to holiday entitlement and pay
- Time off for training and the repayment of training costs
- TUPE – when your employment will be or has been transferred to another company, usually because of a sale or takeover and protecting your terms and conditions of employment
- Preserving your current terms and conditions of employment after a change in ownership of your employer
- Restrictive covenants – when you are prevented from working for competitive organisations or dealing with particular customers or suppliers after your employment with an organisation ends
- Retirement
Contact our team today for an initial appointment where you can find out more about your options, maximising your chances of a successful and/or financial resolution and next steps.
Speak to our Employment Law team today
To speak to one of our employment lawyers in Walsall, Sutton Coldfield and Cannock, please refer to the contact details for each location, email employment@enoch-evans.co.uk or, alternatively, fill in the enquiry form on the right hand side of the page to ask us a question.