Employment Law
EMPLOYMENT LAW FIRM LEICESTER
Leicester Employment Law Solicitors
A co. (fictitious) is a business in Leicester. Due to the current economic climate, it has decided, sadly, that redundancies are necessary to keep the business going. However, what should A co. do ? Making redundancies can be tricky. Many formal procedures must be followed. Employees must be fully consulted at all stages. There must be objective criteria based on business needs for selecting employees for redundancy.
Leicester employment solicitors have advised countless businesses in Leicester on redundancies and indeed a whole range of issues with efficient, professional advice that provides value for money.
What Leicester employment law solicitors can do for you
Leicester employment solicitors are highly experienced in a variety of employment law issues including:
- Drafting and advising on employment contracts
- Advising on statutory employment rights compliance
- Conducting employment law audits to make sure your business is compliant and up to speed with changes in the law
- Mediation for employment law issues
- Advice on making redundancies
- Advice and representation for employment tribunal claims
- Advising on and drafting compromise agreements
- Advising on health and safety regulations
- Drafting and advising on workplace policies and procedures
- Advice on sickness and absence procedures
If your particular issue has not been included here, please do not hesitate to contact us and see how we can help.
Conducting an employment audit
It is important you keep up to speed with the law as it is ever-changing and particularly important in the workplace. To illustrate this tendency of employment law to change, minimum wages change every year; the Equality Act was passed in 2010 and sick notes have now been replaced Employment law disputes not only create trouble in the workplace, they create trouble outside too as employment tribunals and court cases are public and can potentially attract the wrong kind of attention to your business. We can conduct audits in your business to make sure you are up to date.
Recent changes to the law – fit notes
Studies have shown that working is good for one’s overall well-being, both physically and mentally and where appropriate, can help sick employees make a quicker recovery. With this in mind, a new idea has been bought in to replace the sick note – fit notes. With sick notes, doctors only had two options. To either state that the employee was fit for work or not fit for work. However, with the new system, doctors can now state that the employee may be fit for work if the advice that is given is followed. This might involve making changes to the workplace, allowing the employee to work flexibly or changing the nature of the work the employee does to suit his needs.
To make sure you are up to speed, contact Leicester employment law solicitors.