gunnercooke LLP

Employment Law

Partner

David is an experienced employment lawyer with specific focus on employment-related issues with unusual legal and factual aspects to them.

He has over 20 years' experience of all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law including:

Representation in Employment Tribunals, County Court, High Court and the Central Arbitration Committee Tribunal in contentious matters. Claims ranging from all types of discrimination, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and whistleblowing, to those involving data protection, transnational and regulatory issues. Advice on the enforcement of restrictive covenants and non-competition clauses. Appeals to the upper Courts and Tribunals in Employment matters. Day-to-day preventative HR employment advice. Drafting of contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures. Advice on consultants and subcontractors, commercial agents and agency workers agreements, IR35 and CIS, the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 and the Agency Workers Regulations 2010. Redundancy and restructuring advice. Corporate transactional support including advice on the employment elements of mergers and acquisitions/TUPE transfers. Advice on individual and collective consultation with employees/unions, both locally and trans-nationally involving European Works Councils. Employee benefit work including share schemes (Enterprise Management Incentives, Company Share Option Plans, Employee Benefit Trusts and restricted and phantom share schemes). Data protection and Freedom of Information Act applications. Negotiating settlement agreements/termination packages. Providing in-house training courses on various topics such as data protection and diversity.

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