Legal Advice for Employers
Employment Lawyer David Greenhalgh is top-ranked as a Recommended Lawyer for his work with employers in the Legal 500 2027 edition (the main independent guide to the best lawyers in the UK).
David has over 36 years of experience providing employers with focused expert employment legal advice aimed at protecting their reputations and reducing their exposure to employment/HR related risk.
I also act for senior executives and employees, so I know all the strategies they (with their lawyers) will try to use against you and how to defeat them David Greenhalgh
Case Studies
- Providing tactical advice on all HR/employment matters
- Advice on getting staff back to the office
- Planning and providing guides and necessary letters for redundancy & restructuring
- Threatening & taking action against former employee for breach of post-termination restrictions
- Advising on the planning & implementation and negotiation of senior and complex issue exit
- Assessing merits and value of threatened employment tribunal claims
- Planning and scoping out workplace investigation
- Advising on dealing with a grievance raised during disciplinary proceedings
Over the years David’s expertise as a specialist employment lawyer advising employers has been recognised in both the leading independent guides to the UK legal profession.
David’s specialisms include planning and implementing senior exits and related settlement negotiations.
David also covers restructuring, redundancy and TUPE, restrictive covenants, disciplinary action and workplace investigations. He is currently working with employer clients across a wide range of sectors including tech, insurance, media, financial services, professional services and venture capital.
David created new employment law in the restrictive covenant landmark case of Sunrise Brokers v Rodgers in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. David acted for the successful employer in holding a departing employee to notice/non-compete without the employer having to pay the employee.
Employer Legal Guides
Useful guides for employers from David Greenhalgh.
- David’s Legal 500 Recognition
- David’s Sector Experience
- Day To Day Employment Law Advice
- Dealing with Sickness Absence
- Defending Employment Tribunal Claims
- Discrimination (#MeToo & Black Lives Matter)
- Diversity and Inclusion Training For The Workplace
- Drafting Bonus Terms
- Employment Documentation
- Essential HR Figures / Risk Calculator
- Guide on responding to allegations of criminal acts by your employee
- Guide to avoiding auto-enrolment pitfalls
- Guide to avoiding tribunal claims re recruitment
- Guide to bumping in redundancy
- Guide to calculating notice pay due to employees on maternity or sick leave
- Guide to dealing with harassment in the workplace
- Guide to dealing with workplace relationships
- Guide to Diarising Unfair Dismissal
- Guide to dismissing employee with less than 2 years employment
- Guide to drafting a garden leave clause
- Guide to Drafting a PILON Clause
- Guide to drafting bonus clauses
- Guide to improving your Senior Employment Contracts
- Guide to Monitoring Employees
- Guide to reducing the risk of employment tribunal claims
- Guide to redundancy during maternity leave
- Guide to regulating business use social media
- Guide to Responding to a Data Subject Access Request
- Guide to responding to flexible working requests
- Guide to safely giving references
- Guide to staff socials and minimising risk
- Guide to the use of Pre-Employment Health Questionnaires
- Guide to using fixed term contracts
- How Much Could Claims Against us Be Worth
- Maternity Leave Rights: What Employers Can’t Do
- Reducing the Risk of Claims Around Office Parties
- Redundancy Consultation – Using The Right Terminology
- Research finds that Gen Z Employees are Less Likely to Blow the Whistle
- Senior Exit Planning
- Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
- The hidden costs of offering internships or work experience
- Understanding Employee Turnover Costs: The Real Price of Losing Staff
- What can you do where new hire accepts your offer but you or they pull out later?
- What is the ‘all reasonable steps’ defence to a discrimination claim?
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