Employment Law Solicitors

Our employment law solicitors act for an extensive array of employers and employees. Drawing upon many years of experience and a wealth of knowledge, we help our clients resolve sensitive and complex disputes and provide results in accordance with their individual or commercial objectives.

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Throughout your career, you will likely need to seek legal advice on aspects of your working life and issues that arise in the workplace. Whether you work for a small company or a large corporation, Stirling Ackroyd Legal are poised to provide you with the guidance in areas of employment law ranging from banking to public services.

How Can We Help?

Employment law is there to prevent discrimination and to promote health and safety. It is also in place to establish a minimum required level for economic support and to prevent work disruption due to disputes between labour and management.

Employment law serves to protect both the employer and employee, ensuring that whatever stance you come from, Stirling Ackroyd Legal will be able to provide you with expert legal counsel. Our team of solicitors will cover rights, duties and obligations, whilst also covering matters of legislation and regulations of conduct.

Help For The Employee:

If you require advice concerning a workplace grievance or an unfair dismissal, our team of solicitors will ensure that your needs are met with advice tailored to your case. We also provide services in discrimination and workplace bullying or harassment and our expert legal team will ensure they handle your case-sensitively.

Help For The Employer:

Employers can benefit from our services in ensuring that matters concerning disciplinary proceedings against a poorly performing staff member is addressed. Stirling Ackroyd Legal provide a specialist service to ensure that the employer’s needs are also met in such cases. Our solicitors are also experienced in settlement agreements, to bring the relationship of employer and employee to a close.

We Cover All Workplace Grievances

By choosing Stirling Ackroyd Legal, you will be presented with support and guidance through all your workplace grievances. Be you an employee or the employer, we are conveniently based throughout London and the UK to ensure that you can receive our support across the country.

FAQs on Employment Law Issues

When can someone be given disciplinary hearings?

What should I do if I have been unfairly dismissed from work?

What is constructive dismissal?

I have been offered a settlement agreement. What is it?

When can someone be given disciplinary hearings?

Disciplinary proceedings are used by employers to deal with problems involving the work or the behaviour of their staff, such as poor performance. Disciplinary action varies according to the circumstances, from a written warning to dismissal.

What should I do if I have been unfairly dismissed from work?

If you feel that your dismissal was unfair, please contact one of our specialist employment law solicitors, who will be able to help you. Unfair dismissal occurs when an employee is not given proper notice of the termination of their employment, or when the termination itself was unjustified.

What is constructive dismissal?

You may have a case for constructive dismissal if you were forced to resign from your job because of the conduct of your employer, which must constitute a serious breach of your contract of employment.

I have been offered a settlement agreement. What is it?

A settlement agreement brings the relationship between employer and employee to a formal end. It records in detail any settlement that you have reached with your former employer.