Vicky is a Partner in our Employment Team.
Based in Newbury, Vicky has a wealth of experience supporting organisations across a range of sectors, advising them on all aspects of employment law. Vicky is often a sounding board to her clients, giving advice on more complex issues arising from everyday HR matters such as disciplinaries, grievances, sickness absence management, TUPE, redundancy and settlement discussions. She also advises and negotiates on senior level exits and runs a number of Employment Tribunal claims. On the non-contentious side, Vicky assists clients in ensuring their contracts, service agreements and policies are up to date and commercially sound.
Vicky is a trusted adviser, who provides practical and strategic advice to help clients achieve the outcome they want. Vicky develops close working relationships with her clients, many of whom she has worked with for a number of years.
Some of Vicky’s most recent experience includes supporting a client in a 14-day Employment Tribunal hearing, advising on collective redundancy consultation, assisting a client with managing an employee on long term sickness absence, settling a complex grievance involving allegations of discrimination and unfair dismissal and drafting a new director’s service agreement.
Work Highlights
- Collective redundancies – advising on the process including selection criteria, assisting with associated documentation and the timing and content of the consultation process
- Supporting clients on transactional work including providing TUPE advice, reviewing/drafting service and consultancy agreements, negotiating indemnities and warranties, drafting/advising on settlement agreements and carrying out due diligence
- Assisting clients with managing complex disciplinaries and grievances
- Advising on data protection issues including drafting privacy notices and managing data subject access requests
- Advising on the enforceability and interpretation of restrictive covenants
- Supporting clients in defending Employment Tribunal proceedings including sex, disability and race discrimination, whistleblowing, unfair dismissal and unlawful deductions from wages including at appeal level
- Assisting organisations and individuals in relation to senior level exits
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As well as providing employment law advice, Vicky also advises education clients in defending disability discrimination claims in the SEND First Tier Tribunal.