Employment

There are many ways of approaching "people management" and, while many employers strive to be the employer of choice, there are others who take a bottom line approach – offering minimum rights. However, as an employer, you have certain duties towards your staff to ensure they are provided with a suitable, safe working environment and that their terms of employment meet statutory requirements.

Whichever your approach, your systems and procedures must offer your employees their minimum rights. This involves putting in place appropriate terms of employment, observing health and safety regulations and issuing clear policies regarding sick pay, holidays, maternity/paternity rights, discrimination and other matters. Over recent years, we have seen a number of major changes to employment law directly, as well as a number of tweaks to existing legislation and there is more still to come!

Thorntons' Employment Law Team will work with you to develop, implement and review your systems and procedures to keep up to date with your responsibilities, as well as providing training to ensure your staff are aware of their responsibilities. We offer advice across the whole spectrum of employment issues, from recruitment to redundancy & dismissals

Our team also advise on other areas of the law which human resource professionals and business owners need to be aware of, such as data protection anddisability discrimination.