Employment Law (for employers)

Employment for for Employees

Palka Downton provides advice and assistance to employers on an ad hoc basis, through regular retainers or on specific projects. This enables employers, whatever their size, to have immediate access to legal and commercial advice as and when it is needed. The range of services is flexible, from advice on specific legal issues to full involvement in the employment aspects processes of your business.

• TUPE and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions;
• Redundancy procedures;
• Exit management and compromise agreements;
• Disciplinary and grievance processes;
• Issuing and defending employment tribunal claims;
• Setting up consultative committees;
• Advice to employees on all work-related issues;
• Carrying out independent discrimination / harassment investigations;
• Equal pay job evaluations;

• Managing business reorganisations;
• Drafting and updating employment documentation;
• Management Training;
• High Court Litigation - restrictive covenants, breach of confidentiality;
• Directors' service contracts and director / shareholder disputes;
• Distributorship, agency and self employed contractors' agreements;
• Human Resources “Health Audits”

Fees

Services are normally charged on a time basis with fixed hourly rates on a “pay as you go” basis.

However it is the firm's policy to help clients to control and monitor fees and to tailor billing to individual requirements. The firm therefore offers alternative fee options such as:

• Daily or weekly rates or fixed fees: suitable for special projects where services are needed exclusively for a certain period or for a particular project;
• Retainers: regular monthly fees to cover whatever work is required, the amount to be agreed and reviewed as necessary;
• Half or full day training rates which are less than those charged for legal work;

We aim to provide quotations on the same day as your initial enquiry or instruction.