Give us a call
Email us

Employment law for businesses

Employees are often a company’s most valuable asset. Looking after them makes commercial sense. Our top ranking employment lawyers can help you do just that.

We take a strategic and commercial approach to the legal advice provided across all areas of employment. Our employment solicitors help you navigate changes to employment law. If disputes occur, we’ll be by your side and backing your cause.

Who we work with

Our specialist employment law for business team advises businesses owners, executive level managers, HR directors and managers at mid-market corporations and smaller SMEs.

 Your problems, solved

It is essential companies keep up to date on changes to employment law and remain compliant at all times. As highly experienced employment solicitors, we can help you meet your legal obligations, designed to protect your business and your employees.

When disputes arise, we can help protect your business from potential employment claims, such as discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal. We guide employers through investigations, redundancy, disciplinary and grievance processes to minimise the risk of claims.

We advise employers on how to implement decisions and changes involving their staff, in order to minimise legal risk and disruption.

If your business has limited in-house resource, we can assist in dealing with the day to day employment issues.

Sign up for legal insights from our employment team

How our employment lawyers can help your business

Whether you are hiring for the first time or updating your teams’ contracts, we can prepare template or bespoke employment contracts, HR policies and handbooks so that you know the legal requirements are covered.
If you are looking to down-size, make redundancies or manage employee departures, we can advise how best to achieve the outcome required, to reduce your risk and help you to manage this process.
When you are refreshing your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI )strategy or faced with allegations of harassment or discrimination, our experienced team of employment lawyers can support your organisation and provide you with practical advice to help manage claims and minimise your risk.
We support employers of all sizes to implement dismissals (redundancy, misconduct, illness absence) so you can reduce the risk of claims and expense of litigation.
At Cripps we are experienced in guiding organisations through the legal steps and making sure your policies work for your organisation.
We can assist you to set up incentive plans to help retain your people and advise on the meaning of schemes when you have leavers.
Employee Ownership Trusts can improve productivity and profitability. We can support you to put Employee Ownership Trusts in place.
We can advise you on the options when you need staff in a location where you don’t have an entity and need a local employer to employ your employees for you. We can negotiate the arrangements with an employer of record on your behalf.
Our employment lawyers are experts at defending claims by employees, such as unpaid wages, unfair dismissal, discrimination or whistle-blowing.
We can tailor training to upskill your people, quickly on-board new joiners, deal with tricky situations and prepare your organisation for change. We can provide training to help your staff:
  • Deal with misconduct and absence issues
  • Handle disciplinary and grievances - the investigation and steps to follow
  • Conduct employee redundancies without facing claims
  • Improve equality and diversity and defend against #metoo, bullying and discrimination claims.
  • Upskill your HR team on the basics of employing an employee in England
We can support you when you receive requests for data and help interpret the impact of data protection rules on your organisation.
We can support your business on a day to day basis and with complex issues, providing the supporting documentation you need, as part of a retainer or other arrangements.
Our expert employment team can conduct investigations for you, to minimise disruption and ensure a robust report is prepared.
Our team of employment lawyers are experienced in advising on staff transfers and when Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) applies.
We support employers to make large and small numbers of redundancies, preparing the supporting documentation, to reduce the risk of claims and expense of litigation.
We take action to protect your business interests and advise you whether the obligations on the employees you want to hire are a problem.
We are experienced in assisting organisations to make changes in the most cost effective and low risk way.
We support organisations to prepare separation agreements and negotiate the terms of departure with its employees.
Our experienced employment lawyers can deal with and consult trade unions to ensure all legal requirements are met.
We can audit the status of your people, their entitlements and any liabilities, whether you are facing claims or buying or selling a business.

Meet the team

Our employment law experience

How we made a difference

Contact us

If you have a question or need advice, please let us know how we can help.

Name(Required)
Share