We provide clear and pragmatic advice to businesses on redundancies and restructuring, ranging from individual redundancies to large scale reorganisations, site relocations and business closures.
We also support businesses in relation to implementing other cost saving measures and changes to working arrangements, including pay reductions, reduced working hours schemes, and changes to benefits, incentives, hours and place of work.
How we help
- Providing strategic advice in relation to restructuring and redundancy programmes and business transformation projects.
- Advising on procedure, including complying with collective and individual redundancy consultation obligations and managing internal communications and meetings.
- Advising on working with trade unions and staff forums to negotiate and implement change.
- Formulating exit packages, including advising on employee tax, immigration, restrictive covenants, business protection and other implications.
- Drafting and negotiating settlement agreements.
- Delivering training to employers, managers and employee representatives to enable them to discharge their obligations effectively.
- Assisting with dispute resolution, including ACAS early conciliation and mediation.
- Defending employment disputes and litigation.
Our experience includes
- Providing urgent strategic advice to a leading luxury automotive company on a collective redundancy exercise, including on the election of representatives for the purpose of consultation, consultation obligations and compliance, and the securing negotiation of over 30 settlement agreements with affected employees.
- Advising a publishing group on its collective employee consultation obligations arising from a proposal to change the redundancy terms for all new and existing staff, including obligations and practicalities of union negotiation and potential claims.
- Advising a platform for art galleries on a number of potential redundancies.
