Employment

Employment Law and HR Services

At DJM, we provide practical, commercially focused employment law advice that helps businesses manage risk, resolve workplace disputes and achieve your commercial objectives. We understand that legal advice must provide workplace solutions that support the continued growth and success of your business.

Strategic Advice and Dispute Resolution

Our priority is to help employers resolve workplace issues quickly, effectively and with minimal disruption to their business. Wherever possible, we seek to achieve sensible commercial outcomes through negotiation mediation and early resolution.

Where resolution is not possible, we provide robust representation and strategic support, ensuring that your business is fully prepared to defend claims in the Employment Tribunal.

A Trusted Partner for Your Business

We believe the best employment law advice comes from understanding your business. By developing long-term relationships with our clients, we are able to provide proactive support before issues escalate into costly disputes.

Our advice is tailored to the specific needs, cultures and objectives of each business. We combine technical legal expertise with commercial awareness, delivering practical guidance that helps employers make confident decisions.

Retainer Services

For businesses seeking ongoing employment law and HR support, we offer a retainer package that provides access to experienced employment law specialists whenever advice is needed.

Our retainer clients benefit from responsive, proactive support across a wide range of workplace issues, helping them manage employee relations effectively and minimise their legal risk.

click here to learn more about our retainer service and how it can support your business.

An Integrated Commercial Service

Employment issues rarely exist in isolation. Our Employment Team works closely with our Corporate, Commercial and Dispute Resolution colleagues to provide seamless advice across all aspects of your business.

This collaborative approach enables us to provide comprehensive and commercially sound solutions, whilst maintaining an exceptional service for our clients.

Many of our clients choose to instruct us even where employment law assistance may be available through their business insurance, valuing the continuity, responsiveness and tailored advice that comes from working with lawyers who understand their organisation, people and objectives.

How We Can Help

We advise employers on all aspects of employment law including:

• Employment Tribunal and litigation claims (including wrongful and unfair dismissal claims)
• Redundancies, restructuring and organisational change
• Settlement Agreements
• Employment contracts and directors service agreements
• Staff handbooks, policies and procedures
• Restrictive covenants
• Managing sickness absence and capability issues
• Disciplinary, grievance and performance management procedures
• TUPE transfers and business reorganisations
• Discrimination, harassment and equality issues
• Family friendly rights, including maternity, paternity and flexible working requests
• Breach of contract and employee disputes
• Senior executive and director exits
• HR support and strategic employment law advice

Transparent Pricing

We are committed to providing clear and transparent pricing information. You’ll get a clear cost estimate before we start work, and we will let you know If anything changes during the matter.

Please click here to view an example of our pricing estimate for an Employment Tribunal matter.

Meet Our Experts

Our specialist employment team have extensive experience advising businesses of all sizes across a broad range of employment and HR matters.

Whether you need support with a one-off issue or ongoing strategic advice, our team is here to help.

Contact us today to discuss how we can support your business.