Bio
Tessa is an Employment Partner.
Tessa specialises in providing HR team with strategic and operational advice on all aspects of employee management, with particular expertise in business restructures, change management, high-level and sensitive grievance, disciplinary procedures, and managed exits.
Working with FTSE 100 and 250 companies in sectors as diverse as retail, media and entertainment, transport and industrials, Tessa represents her clients in complex and high-value claims – including advising on discrimination and whistleblowing claims with significant reputational risk, and overseeing employment tribunal claims and HR advisory work.
She also has experience in conducting investigations on behalf of clients, ranging from significant and sensitive workplace disputes to potential misconduct such as bullying and harassment.
Tessa also delivers bespoke training to clients, spanning advanced investigations skills, effective performance management, and managing sensitive exits.
Examples of Tessa’s work include:
- Successfully defending a complex and high-value whistleblowing claim brought by a former member of the client’s executive team.
- Working with a large restaurant chain on the proposed closure of its head office in central London, including providing strategic support on how to plan and implement the collective and individual consultation processes.
- Advising a retail client on the employment law considerations and outsourcing its key head office functions cross-border, including in relation to related TUPE and collective redundancy consultation requirements.
- Investigating historic bullying and harassment allegations and the downloading of explicit images to a work device involving a senior employee of an international entertainment business.
- Advising a food and beverage provider on the exit of its UK general manager following allegations of expenses fraud.