Employment Solicitors
The law today is constantly evolving to meet the needs of an ever progressive society of mixed beliefs, ethnicities, ablities and technologies. Legal frameworks need to remain adaptable to the ethics of a modern world, the past few years alone have seen dramatic changes in the area of workplace discrimination and equality.
The fundamentals remain the same: If you have been subject to workplace bullying, harassment, victimisation, unfair or constructive dismissal, a breach of contract by your employer, forced into redundancy or not properly and fairly remunerated for the work you do, then it is time you enlisted the help of an employment solicitor.
What are employment solicitors?
An employment solicitor is a lawyer who specialises in employment related disputes, usually between an employer and their employees. As such, an employment solicitor is concerned primarily with the set of laws and regulations which bestow legal rights and obligations upon employers in the UK and their workers.
Employment law is a vital force in the regulation of the relationship between the labour force, employers and trade unions/other employee representatives.
What kinds of grievance are covered by employment law?
Employment solicitors are charged with being experts on the vast and complicated body of law relating to employment. There are a multitude of different grievances that could come under the banner of employment, and would therefore fall under the remit of an Employment Solicitor. Some of the most frequent grievances that occur in the UK regarding employment law are:
- Cases involving discrimination in the workplace, or application process
- Claims of unfair dismissal from a job, or being unfairly made redundant
- Pay disputes between employers and their employees
- Breaches of contract between employee and employer
In all of these cases employment solicitors defend their clients in county courts and at employment tribunals, as well as in the boardrooms and meeting rooms of companies up and down the country. They do this because legal rights must be fought for and upheld; sometimes legislation is only half the battle.
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