Alex is a Partner and provides employment and immigration advice.
Alex leads the business immigration team, successfully supporting companies and individuals with immigration issues, including understanding the immigration options available for hiring international talent. Alex has many years’ experience helping businesses obtain a sponsor licence and understand their compliance duties. Alex works with employers on understanding right to work checking processes and how to avoid illegal working. She has a particular expertise on global mobility and advises clients and individuals on the issues around international remote working.
Alex advises on all areas of employment law but with a particular focus on HR advisory work, employee exits, discipline and performance management, grievances, gender pay gap reporting and equal pay. She is an experienced investigator and has provided support on a range of complex disciplinary and grievance issues.
Alex has over 13 years’ experience and has been mentioned in The Legal 500 for her calm and professional approach.
Alex regularly delivers training on a range of topics including sponsor compliance, global mobility and gender pay gap reporting.
Expertise
- Business immigration (UK in-bound)
- Business restructuring
- Collective consultation
- Corporate immigration support
- Disciplinaries and grievances
- Discrimination
- Dismissals
- Grievances
- Exit strategies
- Settlement agreements
- Policy and procedure review
- Redundancies
- Employment
- Employment Investigations
- Employment Tribunal litigation
- Intellectual Property
- The Agency Workers Regulations 2010
- Unfair dismissal claims
- Employment and Immigration training
Recent work
Hospitality sector business
Supporting a business in the hospitality sector with a successful sponsor licence application.
Sponsor licence holder
Conducting a mock home office audit for a sponsor licence holder.
Transport sector client
Delivering right to work training for a client in the transport sector.
Tech business
Conducting a complex disciplinary investigation relating to a senior employee and director of a tech business.
Large international retailer
Providing ongoing HR advice and support for a large international retailer.
Various clients
Regularly advising clients wanting to understand the implications of allowing staff to work remotely overseas.
Various businesses
Advising businesses on the contents of their gender pay gap reports, including how to report information for trans or non-binary staff members.