Rachel is a Senior Associate in the Employment team.
Rachel is an experienced advisor, litigator and investigator. She also regularly provides training sessions to clients on a variety of topics including:
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managing poor performance and misconduct issues;
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handling employee grievances;
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dealing with flexible working requests; and
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reorganisation and redundancy.
Clients include senior executives, owner-managed businesses and household name businesses in several different sectors, including film and entertainment, retail and hospitality.
Recent examples of how Rachel has supported clients include:
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carrying out an extensive investigation into a grievance brought by an employee who alleged wrongdoing on the part of the MD and CFO, and producing a detailed report, to include findings and commercial recommendations;
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conducting a number of investigations into allegations of discrimination and harassment, and producing detailed findings and recommendations;
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successfully representing an employer client in defending employment tribunal claims for unfair dismissal and discrimination; and
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advising client through a complex restructuring programme, which involved redundancy and the variation of employees' terms and conditions.