Commercial Employment Law
Protect your business against Employment claims.
Ward Gethin Solicitors can assist your business from the beginning, when your business is initially set up, right through to when it has grown into a successful business. We can help you to manage your employees and protect your business against Employment Tribunal claims.
As no doubt you are aware, employment law is extremely complicated and has undergone numerous changes and undergoes changes on a regular basis. It is therefore difficult for employers to keep up to date with employment law and often employers can be held as unfairly dismissing employees when they did not even realise that they were in breach of the law. Unfortunately, employment law is not just common sense and you must protect your business from Employment Tribunal claims.
Our employment Solicitors here at Ward Gethin can help you to ensure that you are protected from Employment Tribunal claims and reduce the risks of expensive Employment Tribunal claims against you. We can assist you right from the start before any Employment Tribunal proceedings are issued against you. It is always better to seek our advice before you dismiss or discipline any of your employees. We can also help you avoid Employment Tribunal claims by ensuring that you have suitable procedures in place. We can assist you with the following:
- Drafting your employment contracts. If you do not have a contract of employment in place, then the Tribunal can make awards on behalf of employees against you.
- Drafting of employment policies and your procedures for disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Drafting of retirement policies which you now have to have in place
- We can represent you in negotiations and proceedings in the Employment Tribunal
- We can also assist you in director’s duties, service agreements and post termination obligations including restrictive covenants and non solicitation clauses. It is important to ensure that your employees to do take away your clients and set up in competition with you. We can assist you with advising you in relation to these clauses which can protect you and your business
- We can advise you on employment law issues of buying and selling of your business which can be costly if you do not do correctly
Please do not leave it too late to contact our employment Solicitors, and seek advice before proceedings have been issued against you. If however proceedings have already been issued, then we can assist and please contact Richard Pennington or Kim Faivelowitz on 01553 660033.
Sally Dean
Sally joined Ward Gethin from a large regional firm and is a Solicitor specialising in Employment Law and Dispute Resolution. She handles all general civil litigation matters and disputes including contract disputes, debt recovery, wills and landlord/tenant disputes. Sally advises both employers and employees on employment issues and all aspects of employment law, including drafting and advising on employment contracts, handling employment disputes and representation in the Employment Tribunal.
Outside the office Sally is a keen musician and also enjoys sports such as running, snowboarding and squash.
01553 660033
Chris Dewey
Chris is a solicitor, the firm's Managing Partner and a key member of both the Personal Injury and Employment Law teams. He is a Senior Litigator with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, a member of the Law Society's Personal Injury Panel, and specialises in advising both employers and employees on all aspects of employment law including claims for unfair dismissal, disability claims, TUPE transfers etc. In a personal capacity he is a keen sportsman and holds the firm's best golf handicap.
Kim Faivelowitz
Kim is a Chartered Legal Executive specialising in Dispute Resolution and Employment Law. She handles general civil litigation matters including contract disputes and landlord/tenant disputes. Kim advises on employment issues, including drafting and advising on employment contracts and she acts for employees and employers in Employment Tribunal claims. Kim also deals with agency work for other law firms and banks/building societies.
Vikki Haines
Vikki is a Trainee Legal Executive who joined the firm in 2008. She specialises in Debt Recovery matters and also handles cases involving Landlord and Tenant disputes. As well as this, Vikki also deals with agency work for other law firms and banks/building societies.
Sarah Lunn
Having completed her training with Ward Gethin, Sarah was admitted to the roll as a Solicitor on 15th September 2011. Sarah specialises in Employment Law, Family Law and Dispute Resolution.
Sarah handles general civil litigation matters, including contract disputes and Inheritance Act Claims. Sarah also acts for both employees and employers in employment disputes and provides advice on issues such as redundancy, TUPE and discrimination. In addition she also handles matrimonial matters such as divorce, child contact disputes, child residence applications, cohabitation issues and domestic violence.
Sarah also deals with agency work for other law firms and banks/building societies.
Richard Pennington
Richard is the supervising partner of the Family and Civil Litigation and Employment Departments and carries out litigation work which he has carried out for regular clients for over 20 years.
He became a solicitor in 1986 and a partner at Ward Gethin in May 1991 where he is the Finance Partner. Richard now brings his over 20 years of litigation experience particularly of contentious financial issues to the areas of primarily family law – especially finance issues, contentious probate and professional negligence along with some general litigation.
Richard is also a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.
He is a trained mediator, a Member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and a member of Resolution (which is a group of lawyers committed to constructive resolution of family disputes).
In a personal capacity he is the Chair of YMCA Norfolk, a trustee of a number of local charities and a member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship.
