Employment
Members of Fahri, Azzat & Co. frequently conduct employment work in conjunction with their commercial practices, which naturally leads members to act on behalf of large public and commercial respondents, as well as managerial, senior executive and director-level applicants.
Members practising in this area have appeared in the Industrial Court and the High Court. They are skilled at making judgements regarding the use of the Industrial Court or High Court jurisdiction, as appropriate, for tactical reasons. Nevertheless, we often resolve matters for both applicants and respondents well ahead of any claim, or in mediation, whether independent of any proceedings, or alongside them.
Members can advise on all aspects of employment law, with a bias towards contentious matters. Whilst members are familiar with high-level claims, they can also advise on bespoke individual employment contracts. Members have been dealing with business reorganisations, including redundancies, as well as on collective employment law.
Members are also skilled at obtaining injunctions to enforce post-termination contractual restrictions, having acted in High Court claims for failure to honour settlement agreements, involving the alleged breach of confidentiality obligations. This work, whilst often confidential, shows our ability to bring cases to a final commercial conclusion having established the necessary legal and procedural groundwork.
Clients instruct Fahri, Azzat & Co. for employment work at all levels of call and particularly where cases involve difficult, unusual or high-profile issues requiring an in-depth understanding of business practices and trends, or new and difficult points of law.
The Firm is regularly instructed to give advice and act in claims concerning statutory rights and particularly proceedings for public interest disclosure (whistle-blowing), unfair dismissal and discrimination on grounds of race, sex (including equal pay), disability, sexual orientation, religious belief and age, for public and private clients.
Our clients come from a broad range of industries including financial services, transport, education, retail and technology. We are fearless advocates for our clients and take a practical and proactive approach to our work. We are prepared to work hard alongside you from beginning to end.
Our work includes:
Bonus disputes
Collective labour law
Contract claims
Disciplinary and grievance procedures
Age, disability, race, sex and sexual orientation discrimination
Unfair and wrongful dismissal
Employee share schemes
Employers’ vicarious liability
Employment injunctions including; restrictive covenants, garden leave, confidential information, equal pay claims
Investigations
Jurisdiction
Maternity and parental rights
Occupational injury and disease
Occupational stress
Part-time worker claims
Pensions
Redundancy
Whistleblowing