Employment Lawyer - PQE

We are looking for Lawyers to join our market leading Employment Practice in our newly established team in Belfast working primarily with our London team as well as across the region and the globe.

Our Employment team work with our clients on the full range of domestic and international employment issues. We work with a broad range of blue chip and global clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, TMT, pharmaceutical, transport, consumer and retail.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team in Belfast working alongside and as an integral part of the London team handling high quality, varied and interesting work. This will include global projects and transactions, high profile domestic instructions, complex litigation, and strategic HR advisory work.

Examples of matters you can be involved in include:

• Advising on diligence reviews and preparing diligence reports
• Advising on global business carve outs in advance of sales and post-acquisition integrations
• Advising on when TUPE applies and relevant consequences, for example, protection against dismissal, changing terms and conditions, the election of worker representatives and protective awards
• Advising on TUPE information and consultation requirements
• Drafting and negotiating relevant provisions in core transactional documentation;
  Advising on other associated transactional matters as required
• Advising on when a redundancy situation arises and requirements of individual and collective redundancy procedures
• Advising on domestic issues such as pooling and the application of appropriate selection criteria

• Being part of a team working on global or multi-jurisdictional projects, such as restructuring exercises, global policy or contract reviews, pay equity reviews and other compliance projects
• Co-ordinating and reviewing global advice to prepare centralised advice to clients

• Working on Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and equal pay claims
• Managing and conducting disclosure exercises
• Preparing ET3 forms, Grounds of Resistance and witness statements
• Advising on and negotiating settlements
• Advising on the enforce ability of restrictive covenants

• Conducting fact finding investigations into employee allegations, including grievances and whistleblowing allegations;
• Advising on investigation procedures including scoping

• Advising on applicable search terms in response to data subject access requests
• Reviewing and redacting documents as required

Some travel may be required.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales
• Excellent academics coupled with evidence of good quality training and strong employment experience gained from a leading employment practice
• Good commercial mind-set, a strong team player and have the ability to build excellent relationships with clients