Relations industrielles

Our Industrial Relations Work

• Tout
• Royaume-Uni et Europe

• Advising Unions in redundancy and TUPE transfers

  Advising on consultation with unions in redundancy and TUPE transfer situations where industrial action is threatened

  Allegations of failure to consult on a change programme

  Advising a company in the UK in relation to a high value claim brought by a trade union for a failure to inform and consult appropriately around a change programme.

  Establishing internal employee consultation structures

  Advising clients in establishing internal employee consultation structures (both with and without unions)

  Legal options of balloting and strike action

  Advising on legal options around, and the legality, of balloting and any calls for strike action (and working in relation to any industrial action being called off)

  Long running Unite Employment Tribunal case

  Advising on a long-running employment tribunal case brought by a trade union Unite, relating to collective consultation and protective award proceedings

  Pre-litigation equal pay case and Trade Union negotiations

  Advising a plc on a substantial pre-litigation equal pay case with over 600 potential claimants, which included undertaking an equal pay review, reporting on liability and quantum, negotiating with the trade union and co-ordinating with an equal pay expert and Counsel.

  Request for registration as a leviable establishment

  Working with an industrial services company in the UK in relation to a request from a training board for its registration as a leviable establishment.

  Resolution of dispute and avoiding industrial action

  Working with an international company in relation to the management of its relationship with its recognised unions, and the management of a dispute and avoidance of industrial action

  Resolving disputes via ACAS and other processes

  Advising clients in dispute situations as to how to resolve existing disputes via ACAS and other processes

  Trade Union rule book revisions

  Assisted in drafting rule books revisions for 2 major trade unions

• Coverage

  Initial policy coverage investigations, advice and triaging for a broad book of non injury placed insurance policies

  Royaume-Uni

  Directors & Officers

  Acting in relation to a claim by an employee in a local grocery business against his employers’ directors after he was seriously injured falling down a lift shaft. Inadequate insurance was in place for the injuries sustained.

   

  Royaume-Uni

  IT, Technology and Media

  Acting on a delegated authority basis on a portfolio of TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) cases including into small claims and fast track court proceedings

  Royaume-Uni

  Lawyers

  Acting on a delegated authority basis in relation to a varied book of solicitors pre-litigation professional negligence cases

  Royaume-Uni

  Property

  Acting for a large number of insurers who offer all or any of professional indemnity, property liability and public liability insurance on a general retainer as well as delegated authority basis in relation to defending over 2,500 retro-fit cavity wall insulation cases including pre-litigation

  Royaume-Uni

  Surveyors

  Claims handling a book of outsourced pre-litigated and litigated cases against surveyors and valuers

  Royaume-Uni