Employment & Labor Law
Contracts, policies, restructuring and workplace disputes — advising employers and senior executives.
Detailed overview
We advise employers on the full employment lifecycle: hiring documentation, handbooks and policies, performance management, restructuring and exits. The aim is that a decision taken today survives scrutiny in a tribunal two years from now.
The team also acts for senior executives on appointment terms, equity and incentive arrangements, restrictive covenants and negotiated departures — work that calls for the same familiarity with how these agreements are litigated.
Where a workplace complaint arises, we run or supervise independent investigations so the findings hold up. A rushed internal process is one of the most common reasons an otherwise defensible dismissal fails.
- Employment contracts, offer letters and consultancy agreements
- Employee handbooks, policies and codes of conduct
- Restrictive covenants, confidentiality and non-solicitation
- Redundancy, restructuring and collective consultation
- Workplace investigations, grievances and disciplinary process
- Harassment and discrimination complaints
- Wrongful and constructive dismissal claims
- Labour-authority proceedings and settlement negotiation
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
You are restructuring a team and need the process to be lawful and defensible.
A senior hire or exit requires terms that will actually be enforceable.
A grievance has been raised and the investigation must be run properly.
A former employee is competing or soliciting in breach of their covenants.
The attorneys handling employment & labor law.
Multi-site restructuring completed without a single claim
- The challenge
- Restructurings of this size ordinarily generate claims. The group had no consultation protocol, managers had no training in lawful selection, and an earlier reorganisation at one site had already produced two unresolved grievances.
- The outcome
- The restructuring completed on schedule. Of the affected roles, 84 were redeployed internally. No claim was filed. The two pre-existing grievances were resolved during the same process.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“We restructured three departments with Aisha guiding the process end to end. Every consultation step was documented, every conversation scripted properly. There were no claims. For a change of that size, that is the whole measure of success.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
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Speak to the employment & labor law team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.