Employment Law Solicitors
Your partner in employment law, compliance, and workforce solutions
Vigil subscribers log in hereEmployment law is complex, fast-moving and can have a significant impact on every aspect of running a business. At Blake Morgan, our specialist employment law solicitors combine deep legal expertise with a clear understanding of the commercial realities organisations face. Whether you are managing day-to-day HR issues, handling complex disputes, or navigating large-scale organisational change, we help you make informed decisions that protect your business and achieve the best possible outcomes.
As part of Blake Morgan’s wider Employment, Pensions, Benefits and Immigration group, our employment solicitors are supported by over 20 dedicated experts who work collaboratively to provide a seamless service. We pride ourselves on delivering clear, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice that is tailored to your specific goals. Our clients value our ability to balance legal precision with commercial practicality,ensuring you receive advice that is not only legally robust but also makes business sense.
Main Areas Of Practice
Advocacy and representation
For claims in Employment Tribunals.
Representation before appeal courts
Including the EAT, High Court and other courts up to the Supreme Court.
Employment contracts, service agreements and policies
Including drafting GDPR-compliant policies, handbooks, staff privacy notices and contractual documentation, drafting and enforcing restrictive covenants, protecting of confidential information, drafting and advising on partnership documents, advising on employment status issues and drafting consultancy and independent contractor agreements.
All day-to-day employment law and HR issues
Such as discrimination, equal opportunities, equal pay, disciplinary hearings, grievances, absence, performance management, staff-related data protection issues including subject access requests, wages, working time, gender pay reporting, whistleblowing and family friendly rights.
Dismissals and redundancy
Disciplinary dismissals, redundancies, ill-health dismissals and retirements, voluntary early severance agreements, senior executive terminations, boardroom disputes, protected conversations, settlement negotiations and settlement agreements.
Collective bargaining and trade union issues
Including advice on collective agreements, strikes or threatened industrial action, information and consultation requirements and works councils.
Restructuring and reorganisation
Advice, drafting and due diligence work, changes to terms and conditions, relocation, mergers, acquisitions, procurement, resourcing, outsourcing and TUPE (transfer of undertakings or service provision changes).
Recruitment sector advice
Our specialist team are experts in advising on all legal aspects of recruitment including advice to organisations supplying or relying on permanent, self-employed or temporary staff including agency workers. The team advises on Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Managed Service Arrangements as well as all legal considerations facing recruitment businesses.
Our Clients
Our employment law solicitors act for a wide range of public, private and third sector clients, from individuals to household names, spanning a large number of industries and sectors and including some of the leading organisations in their respective fields.
Highlights
Awards And Accolades
The biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation
An overview of the Employment Rights Bill
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Chair End of Year Report 2023/24
Highlights from the last year of the activities we have done to support our communities.
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Employment Law Handy Fact card 2025/26
All the latest Employment law facts and figures in one convenient place
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