Bio
Nicola is an Employment Partner.
With more than 20 years’ experience, Nicola advises both individuals and businesses across a wide range of complex employment law and HR matters.
Her expertise includes drafting and reviewing contracts of employment and staff handbooks, managing grievance and disciplinary procedures, handling redundancies and dismissals, and negotiating settlement agreements. She also has extensive experience representing clients in Employment Tribunal claims.
Nicola advises on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and TUPE, ensuring businesses navigate these processes smoothly. She takes a pragmatic approach, ensuring a clear understanding of her clients’ needs before providing commercially sound advice.
She works with clients across a range of industries, including hotels, restaurants, food manufacturers, and charities.
Examples of Nicola’s work include:
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating employment contracts, staff handbooks, workplace policies and procedures.
- Preparing Directors Service Agreements to ensure that the correct level of protection is provided to the company.
- Drafting post-termination provisions to insert into employment contracts and Director’s Service Agreements to protect the company upon an employee leaving.
- Advising on disciplinary, grievance and capability procedures for both companies and individuals.
- Providing guidance on sickness absence, long-term incapacity and workplace adjustments.
- Advising both companies and individuals on discrimination, harassment, victimisation and assisting with drafting grievance letters if appropriate.
- Advising on redundancy exercises, restructurings and workforce reorganisations, statutory and redundancy pay.
- Undertaking due diligence and advising on the employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions and corporate transactions.
- Assisting and advising on Employment Tribunal and court proceedings, and negotiating settlements and preparing settlement agreements or COT3 agreements if an Employment Tribunal is settled.
- Advising companies on collective consultation obligations in both redundancy matters and TUPE consultation.