Employment Law & HR Support

Our employment law and HR team take pride in delivering employment law and HR services that are tailored to your needs. We are dedicated to listening and learning about your business to understanding the challenges you face, your ambitions, and how to retain, your key asset, your people.

We are one the largest employment and HR teams in the South East, working alongside businesses with 60,000 employees in the region. We will always advise you on your options to enable you to make informed choices. We appreciate that business is about taking managed risks. Our commitment to you is that we will not sit on the fence but will make recommendations using the benefit of our judgment and experience. 

Our expertise

We enjoy consistently good feedback and take pride in the personal service we offer to clients. 

We are recognised in the leading legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers UK. Our clients range from large multi-nationals, SME’s to small family run businesses. We have particular experience of working with businesses in the automotive, manufacturing, logistics and construction industries and extensive experience of working with unionised and non-unionised environments. 

We also have extensive specialist knowledge in both the private and public healthcare sectors including the NHS and in the public and private education sector including further and higher education institutions, academies, local authority and private schools. 

We provide practical and responsive commercial advice on all aspects of employment law and HR including:

• redundancies, reorganisations and restructuring
• bonus, pay and reward arrangements
• Transfer of Undertakings (TUPE)
• contracts of employment and policies and procedures
• restrictive covenants, competition and confidentiality
• industrial relations and industrial action
• Employment Tribunals and contract claims
• discipline, dismissals and grievances
• discrimination and equal opportunities
• employee exits and settlement agreements
• employment law training

Employment Tribunal costs

See how our costs are calculated for Employment Tribunal Claims for Businesses.

Managing redundancy during coronavirus – new fixed fee package

Our new package of fixed cost support will aid those who have made the difficult decision to consider redundancies. Our team of employment law specialists can assist you with the redundancy process in a way that is cost effective, efficient and legally compliant.

Additional HR support

We also provide practical HR support through our separate HR entity, Kent HR and share our knowledge through training, discussion sessions and access to templates, fact sheets and other resources.