Alison is a Principal Associate in our Employment & Immigration team.
She advises employers across different sectors on a wide variety of contentious and non-contentious employment law related issues, including disciplinary and grievance matters, long-term sickness absence, discrimination, business reorganisation and restructuring, redundancy, business protection and TUPE. She has significant experience of acting for clients in Employment Tribunal matters, often involving complex multi-party litigation.
Alison regularly supports the Corporate team in advising on employment law matters across a range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. She consults and advises on employment due diligence to identify the risks, ensuring retention of key staff and that employment liabilities are identified and incorporated within deal negotiations.
She is also experienced in carrying out workplace investigations on behalf of clients and brings her legal knowledge and skill to the forefront when dealing with complex and sensitive issues to assist businesses.
Expertise
- Day to day HR advice and strategic support
- Drafting and negotiating contracts of employment and executives’ service agreements
- Grievances and disciplinaries
- Discrimination
- Settlement agreements and pre termination negotiations
- Senior exit dismissals
- Restrictive covenants
- Business reorganisation and redundancy
- Collective consultation
- TUPE transfers
- Corporate support – business sales and acquisitions
- Workplace investigations
- Employment tribunal litigation
- Employment law training
Recent work
Large construction company
Successfully acting for a large construction company in a multi-party tribunal claim involving 52 claimants and complex race discrimination issues.
Large logistics company
Providing detailed advice to a large logistics company regarding the closure and relocation of depots throughout the UK.
Pharmaceutical client
Advising a pharmaceutical client in relation to a collective consultation process involving changes to terms and conditions of over 100 employees.
Global technology company
Advising a global technology company in relation to the termination of a key commercial agreement and award to a new supplier, including overview advice on TUPE and drafting all correspondence and documents.
Client
Advising a client in order to achieve a positive outcome for a complex employee dispute involving disciplinary matters, whistleblowing and multiple grievances.
Facilities management client
Providing advice and on-site support to a facilities management client on numerous collective grievances brought by 100+ staff as part of a targeted leverage campaign against the business by an established trade union.
Client
Successfully advising a client on the enforcement of restrictive covenants in a case where an employee joined a competing business.
Various clients
Co-ordinating and advising clients on volume settlement agreements arising from large-scale redundancy programmes.
Senior individuals
Successfully negotiating exit terms for senior individuals.
Client
Completing a complex and sensitive workplace investigation involving complains of sexual harassment raised against a senior executive.