Region Area

Lawyers

Rebecca Thornley-Gibson

Work Department

Employment

Career

Rebecca’s work covers all areas of employment law including support on contract and policy frameworks, Employment Tribunal representation, developing and delivering in-house training modules, employee relations issues and senior executive termination arrangements.

She works extensively in the travel sector with tour operators, membership organisations and travel technology providers.  She contributes to ABTA’s Travel Law Today bulletin and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Rebecca acts for senior executives across all business areas and regularly advises individuals in the luxury retail, media and aviation sectors.

She builds close relationships with her clients to ensure an in-depth understanding of their business ensuring employee potential is maximised and employment related risks are minimised.

Work highlights Acting for a Premier League football club in developing and delivering people management training programmes Defending a tour operator against allegations of restrictive covenant breaches by its employees Advising a global ship management company on TUPE disputes in respect of North Sea oil rig operations Defending a tour operator in respect of overseas resort staff Tribunal claims Advising a US insurance company on its GDPR obligations Managing the international employment law support needs of a global negotiation company Advising on the employment aspects of an intra company merger Advising COO of an international airline on termination arrangements and subsequently new contractual arrangements as CEO in his subsequent role

Memberships

Employment Lawyers Association Association of Women Travel Executives Trustee of East Grinstead Sports Club

Position

Partner

Education

Rebecca qualified as a solicitor in 1992

Mentions

Transport • London

Travel

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