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Employment
Our renowned employment team helps you anticipate risk, navigate complex workforce challenges, and resolve disputes. We act for a wide range of clients across a range of sectors, including major corporates, public sector organisations, and employers operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Overview
Our highly-regarded employment lawyers provide comprehensive advice on both day‑to‑day workforce matters and strategic organisational change. We support you in managing risk across areas including discrimination, diversity, equal pay, business immigration, TUPE, workforce mobility, pensions, and partnership or LLP matters.
We have one of the largest employment law teams in the UK, and the breadth and depth of our client base uniquely positions us to advise on complex and sensitive matters. We support you in responding proportionately to issues as they arise, balancing legal obligations, employee experience, and organisational strategy. We can advise on:
- Employment litigation in Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal
- The employment aspects of outsourcing, including TUPE, redundancies, and restructuring
- The implementation of a fair redundancy process, including advice on collective consultation with trade unions or other appropriate employee representatives
- Equal pay claims and gender pay gap reporting compliance
- Complex industrial relations challenges, from union engagement to collective disputes and strike action
- Immigration matters, including sponsor licence management, compliance, strategic workforce planning, and high‑volume visa processing
- All types of employment claims, including unfair dismissal, whistleblowing and discrimination
- Internal investigations, ethics complaints, non‑financial misconduct issues, and allegations of sexual misconduct
- The full range of pensions issues, including the establishment and operation of schemes, transactions and projects, investment matters and funding, and issues arising from existing schemes
- Legislative changes, such as the Employment Rights Act 2025
We also work closely with our People Pool – a fully flexible pool of talented HR professionals who work alongside our lawyers to deliver services including investigations, mediation, large‑scale restructures, and equality and diversity support.
Featured experience
Whistleblowing
Successfully defending a national charity following a whistleblowing claim
Discrimination claims
Advising on the defence of a high value disability discrimination, victimisation, unfair dismissal, and breach of contract claim with potential High Court proceedings
Divestment
Advising a major technology business on employment aspects of a global divestment involving more than 500 employees across 18 countries
Industrial action
Supporting multiple NHS organisations in preparing for and responding to industrial action involving nursing and wider clinical staff
Equal pay
Representing a major supermarket chain and a well-known pharmacy chain in a major equal pay matter and one of the largest claims brought in the employment tribunals
Sector-specific expertise
Health
We understand the unique challenges that health and social care organisations face concerning employment law compliance, as well as the context, internal ramifications, and wider sensitivities of advising about people issues within the sector.
Our market-leading team advise NHS organisations and private providers on matters ranging from whistleblowing, harassment, grievances, and doctors' issues to industrial action/relations strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and outsourcing.
Our clients include a large number of NHS bodies across the UK, as well as independent healthcare providers and commissioners, and other public sector organisations.
Featured Experience
- Successfully defending an Employment Tribunal claim for unfair constructive dismissal including direct sex discrimination, disability discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, and harassment brought by a consultant doctor
- Supporting a high-profile health sector charity to successfully challenge an extremely sensitive sex discrimination claim
- Successfully representing a public sector mental health care provider in the defence of a long-running and complex whistleblowing, automatic unfair dismissal, and disability discrimination claim
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Financial Services
Our lawyers understand how the regulatory regime impacts every aspect of the employment relationship for those operating in the sector. We act for a wide range of financial services firms, including investment banks, PE houses, and asset and wealth managers.
We advise on the full range of complex strategic issues for our financial services clients, including board level hires and exits and associated litigation, disciplinary and grievance issues involving individuals in regulated roles, the Senior Managers & Certification Regime, restructuring and TUPE, employee data protection, internal investigations, and business immigration.
Featured Experience
- Investigating bullying allegations and allegations of non-financial misconduct against two of the most senior UK bankers at a US headquartered global investment bank
- Handling two high-stakes interim relief applications involving whistleblowing claims against major financial services firms
- Advising a global financial services business in 21 EMEA countries on redundancies and changes to terms and conditions
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Technology
Technology businesses scale rapidly, often across borders, creating unique employment challenges. We advise on TUPE for outsourcing and transformation projects, global mobility, business immigration, and remote‑first workforce models. Our team supports organisations navigating employee relations matters linked to AI, digital monitoring tools, and evolving ways of working. We help fast‑growth companies establish resilient employment frameworks that keep pace with innovation, manage risk, and support international expansion.Featured Experience
- Advising a global cyber-security provider on several multi-million dollar global reorganisation projects, covering employees across four continents
- Advising on the TUPE strategy for a major digital outsourcing project
- Advising a major technology provider on employment aspects of a global divestment involving more than 500 employees across 18 countries
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Public sector
Public sector and government‑linked organisations must balance legal obligations with heightened scrutiny, transparency, and governance standards.
Our clients include regulatory bodies, local authorities, and other public sector organisations.
We advise on managing high‑risk claims, sensitive investigations, organisational change, large‑scale restructures, equal pay, collective consultation, complex employee relations matters, and duties related to preventing workplace harassment.
Featured Experience
- Advising on an equal pay and restructure programme for a public body
- Advising the Government Legal Department and drafting associated documents in various TUPE transactions
- Successfully defending a Police force in a multi-day whistle-blowing and disability discrimination claim involving allegations against several senior officers, including the Chief Constable
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Insurance
We advise on the full range of employment law matters for a diverse range of national and international clients in the insurance sector, including insurers and brokers.
The breadth of our client base and strong market knowledge means that there is rarely an issue which we have not encountered before. Our international experience also makes us well-placed to advise on employment issues with a cross-border or multi-jurisdictional element.
Featured Experience
- Representing the insured in defending a disability discrimination claim for failure to consider the claimant's alleged disability when assessing Bradford Score and managing their sickness absence, which ultimately resulted in dismissal
- Representing the insured in a claim brought by a former employee, centred around the insured's decision to terminate the claimant's employment during their probationary period
- Advising on a cross‑border restructure for a multinational insurer
- Advising an international insurer on issues linked to its excepted group life assurance scheme
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FAQs
We regularly act for employers in Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal proceedings. Our experience includes unfair dismissal claims, discrimination claims, and high‑value, complex litigation involving multiple issues or claimants.
We have one of the largest employment law teams in the UK and are ranked Band 1 for Employment by Chambers and Partners UK (2027). We act for a wide range of well‑known clients across the private and public sectors, including organisations operating in multiple jurisdictions.
We advise a broad range of employers, from large multi-national corporates and listed companies to public sector bodies, NHS Trusts, and charities. Many of our clients operate across multiple jurisdictions and look to us for consistent, coordinated employment advice.
Yes. We advise on day‑to‑day employment issues as well as complex organisational change, including restructures, outsourcing, redundancies, and large‑scale strategic projects. This means we can support employers in relation to both immediate challenges and longer‑term planning.
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Pensions
Our pensions team has an established reputation for offering pragmatic advice to a range of private and public sector organisations. The field of pensions is constantly evolving, and we use our technical knowledge and commercial acumen to provide clear, solution-driven advice.
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Immigration
Navigating immigration rules can be complex – whether employers are seeking to attract global talent or individuals are making significant decisions about their future. Our immigration experts provide clear, pragmatic guidance to help you navigate this fast evolving landscape with confidence.
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Cross-Border and International Employment Law
Our comprehensive network of global lawyers can help you operate across borders while complying with international employment law and regulation.
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Equal Pay
Our experienced employment team provides guidance and support to help you navigate organisational equal and gender pay issues.
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Industrial Relations
Our specialist employee relations unit has an established reputation for handling complex industrial relations disputes, including major national strikes.
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Employment Practices Liability
Our market leading employment practice includes a specialist Employment Practices Liability (EPL) team who support UK and global insurers
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“DAC Beachcroft has fantastic depth and breadth of expertise, meaning the right resource, with the most appropriate knowledge and experience, can be allocated to any instruction.”
Chambers and Partners UK, 2027, Employment, Yorkshire: South and West
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Avec 170 avocats, nous sommes l'une des plus grandes équipes juridiques du Royaume-Uni dans le domaine de l'immobilier. Notre vaste réseau nous permet d'accéder à des connaissances nationales, régionales et locales.
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