Wards specialist solicitors - Employment services

Employment services

Keeping pace with the fast-moving world of UK and EU employment legislation is time-consuming for the best-informed of businesses. Wards employment team provides businesses, ranging from ambitious start-ups to thriving, established companies with practical support and the up-to-date advice you need to avoid potential pitfalls and to secure your ties with your employees.

We place great emphasis on understanding our clients’ commercial objectives. We provide a personal service and advice that is based on commercial reality, rather than just legal principles, throughout our clients’ business lifecycle.

Services offered
We offer, among other services, the following areas of advice:

Commercial issues

Drafting employment contracts
Employment policies/procedures
Restrictive covenants
Directors’ service contracts
Changing terms and conditions
Transfer of a business and TUPE issues

Disputes

Breach of contract claims
Unfair and wrongful dismissals
Compromise/severance agreements
Redundancy
Maternity and other family friendly rights
Sex, gender orientation, race, disability discrimination (and, in due course, age discrimination, when the relevant legislation is implemented)
Court and Employment Tribunals
Injunctions

Our employment team can help you with every aspect of the employment relationship, and works closely with the firm's business services team to provide support in the case of business sales, purchases and mergers. We focus on offering preventive advice and, if problems arise, we provide practical and cost-effective solutions.

Contact us
For an initial, no obligation discussion about any of our employment services, please contact:

Commercial issues
Bridget Juckes on 01454 204880 or email her.

Disputes
Central Bristol/North Somerset: Martin Keegan on 0117 929 2811or email him
North Bristol/South Gloucestershire: James Taylor on 01454 204880 or email him