Bio
Charlotte is an Employment Partner.
A Member at Large of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA), Charlotte advises across all aspects of employment law and HR-related issues, with particular expertise in the defence of complex employment tribunal claims, TUPE, redundancies, disciplinary and grievance matters, protected conversations, poor performance, and absence management. She also leads on data protection issues relating to employees, and dealing with employees who seek to utilise data subject access requests as part of employment disputes.
Charlotte works with a wide range of owner-managed SMEs and international businesses across the commercial, engineering and industrial sectors (including local, national and global manufacturers and architects), alongside well-known retailers and a heritage museum. She also has particular expertise in assisting organisations who operate in the financial service sector and is experienced in Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Code of Conduct issues.
Examples of Charlotte’s work include:
- Successfully defending a complicated unfair dismissal, sex, sexual orientation and disability discrimination claim on behalf of a global manufacturer of professional foodservice equipment.
- Supporting an international company on a complex, cross-border TUPE transfer involving three jurisdictions.
- Advising on a complex data subject access request and exit of a Senior Management Fuction (SMF) of an international bank.
- Providing bespoke onsite training to the board of an international bank in respect of equality and diversity issues (with a particular focus avoiding specific risks in the financial sector).