Industrial Relations
With a team of dedicated industrial relations lawyers, we help many household name clients navigate trade union recognition requests, achieve change through collective bargaining, draft collective agreements, handle complex redundancies and TUPE issues, provide comprehensive advice to prevent disputes, and manage strikes if they occur.
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Our specialist team is here to help you deliver practical solutions to complex industrial relations issues, whether your organisation faces small-scale industrial challenges or major national strikes. We are one of the very few law firms that routinely deal with the most complex industrial relations issues for a range of large, well-known clients and have obtained injunctions to stop several, high-profile national strikes for listed companies.
When collective workforce issues arise, our pragmatic advice puts you in control of your strategy, allowing you to act confidently and decisively from the outset. When you are in a high-pressure situation, we understand you need prompt, concise, and practical advice that aligns with your organisation's key goals. We will be there to guide you, drawing on our years of experience of successfully handling similar situations. Our expertise includes:
- Managing strikes and other industrial action
- Seeking injunctions to restrain unlawful industrial action
- Union recognition requests, including representing clients in applications to the CAC
- Preparing clients for the Employment Rights Act trade union reforms
- Engaging with works councils
- Drafting and reviewing collective agreements
- Advising on class actions brought by trade unions
- Changing terms and conditions through collective bargaining
- Strategies for resolving disputes with recognised unions
- Collective consultation on redundancies and TUPE
Featured experience
Injunctions
Securing injunctions to prevent two national Royal Mail strikes, including action that threatened to affect postal voting during the 2019 general election and acting for a FTSE100 client seeking an injunction on a novel legal point
CAC
Representing a range of clients in recognition disputes before the CAC. We have recently advised clients on this in the hospitality, logistics and retail sectors.
Employment Rights Act readiness work
Advising multiple clients on the introduction of trade union access, statutory recognition changes, and other trade union related changes. We are advising household names across a range of sectors, including in hospitality, retail, manufacturing, technology and financial services, developing practical materials to help our clients address these changes.
Media relations
Advising a large international employer in relation to various sensitive industrial relations issues, including the prospect of a 'leverage' PR campaign brought by the recognised trade union
FAQs
Stay informed on the latest Employment Rights Act updates
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”“DAC Beachcroft has a true depth of technically superb, motivated and proactive lawyers who take a pragmatic and commercial approach to addressing risk.”
Legal 500 UK 2026, Employment: Employer: Industrial Relations – London
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”“Only a handful of private practice lawyers have real and in-depth experience in this work and (Nick Chronias) is one of them”
Chambers and Partners UK 2026, Employment: Industrial Relations
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”“They offer very pragmatic advice and have very good knowledge of the industry.”
Legal 500 UK 2026, Employment: Employer: Industrial Relations – London
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