Employment and pensions
The employment and pensions team at Stephenson Harwood have an excellent pedigree. The team has offered specialist pensions advice since it developed as a distinct specialism in the 1980s and also has market leading skills in the areas of restrictive covenants, protection of confidential information, diversity issues, senior executive termination and bonus disputes.
With the funding of occupational pension schemes a daily issue in the UK press, and the additional care required following the Pensions Act 2004, pensions is a key commercial issue in most transactions. With a straightforward and user friendly approach the team provides legal expertise and experience in all areas affecting occupational pension schemes and retirement provision.
Our employment team has a wealth of experience in providing both day to day and litigious advice on employment law issues to clients across a variety of sectors including financial services, leisure and retail, TMT and the public sector.
Our work has an international element and we work closely across our international offices and with established legal contacts overseas. The team has also developed its corporate support transactional expertise by providing services to corporate departments in other law firms which do not have an in-house employment and pensions capability, including other domestic and international law firms.
A team that works well, with lawyers that are ever helpful and on the ball
Chambers UK 2009
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Publications
- 08/10 School's out for Summer!
- 08/10 Interns - could they cost you more than you bargained for?
- 07/10 Abolition of Default Retirement Age
- 07/10 Fact or fiction? Demystifying the Equality Act
- 07/10 Unfair dismissal - a timely reminder
- 07/10 Legal Advice Privilege
- 06/10 UK Emergency Budget 2010
- 05/10 Without prejudice communication
- 05/10 Uplifing compensation for procedural failures
- 05/10 Conduct Dismissals - points to watch when deciding to dismiss
- 05/10 A leap of faith or a step too far?
- 05/10 Annual share schemes reporting
- 04/10 I'm not one to talk... whistleblowing in the workplace
- 04/10 TUPE - The key provisions
- 03/10 Sick as a parrot: managing compassionate leave requests
- 03/10 Scrapping the compulsory retirement age has not been thought through
- 03/10 Who's left holding the baby?
- 03/10 Protect against staff and client poaching
- 02/10 Workplace harassment: the legal view
- 02/10 An employer's right to unilaterally vary employees' contracts
- 02/10 Timely reminders
- 02/10 'Keep 'em peeled' - cases to watch out for in 2010
- 02/10 Bank Payroll Tax update
- 02/10 Close relationships between work colleagues
- 02/10 Religious discrimination claim
- 02/10 Bonuses - a balancing act
- 02/10 Higher rate taxpayers hit on childcare
- 02/10 Compulsory retirement age
- 02/10 Protecting a business against staff and client poaching
- 01/10 Holiday entitlement - some good news for employers
- 01/10 Right to Legal Representation at Disciplinary Hearings
- 01/10 Agency workers: Rights won, flexibility lost?
- 01/10 Protecting the Pension Protection Fund - Caselaw update
- 12/09 Bank Payroll Tax update
- 12/09 Application of new Bank Payroll Tax
- 12/09 New AIM disclosure rules on directors' remuneration
- 12/09 Changes to statutory payments - unfair dismissal cap to decrease
- 12/09 Holidays and sickness
- 12/09 Pre Budget Report 2009 - High earners hit by tax changes
- 12/09 Goldilocks helps decide important TUPE case
- 11/09 Discrimination: 'recovery of stigma loss'
- 11/09 Belief in climate change can constitute a 'philosophical belief'
- 10/09 Increase in data controller notification fees
- 10/09 How to prevent key teams being poached
- 10/09 Which Doctor? Guidance on employee stress
- 09/09 Will you still need me when I'm 65?
- 09/09 Legislative changes and increase to discrimination compensation
- 09/09 Pensions Act 2004 - notifiable events
- 08/09 Final decision in an important pensions case
- 07/09 Changing times - changing terms and conditions
- 06/09 What happens when employees' private and professional lives clash?
- 05/09 What trustees can do if a sponsoring employer is about to go bust
- 05/09 Practical guidance on TUPE's application in an insolvency
- 04/09 Budget 2009 Employment specific proposals
- 03/09 New ACAS Code - release from the statutory straight-jacket?
- 02/09 TUPE - Post-transfer obligations regarding collective agreements
- 02/09 Understanding Protective Awards
- 02/09 Personal Accounts: are you prepared?
- 02/09 Redundancy - will your selection pass the objectivity test?
- 12/08 Court of Appeal decision on protection of a heterosexual employee
- 12/08 The shadow of suspension
- 12/08 Reminders for a recession
- 10/08 Warning: tribunal respondents may now be named publicly
- 10/08 Terrible twos? Age discrimination two years on
- 09/08 Express agreement on holiday overrides WTR
- 09/08 The Advocate General of the ECJ rejects Heyday's legal challenge
- 09/08 Changes in employment legislation
- 09/08 Future Perfect? The potential impact of Equality Bill
- 08/08 Government consults on flexible working
- 08/08 Duty to avoid conflicts of interest - action required
- 08/08 Disability discrimination - a radical shift in position?
- 07/08 Disability discrimination by association
- 07/08 Employee grievances - not always exactly what it says on the tin
- 07/08 House of Lords decision on disability discrimination
- 06/08 Ministry of Justice review no win, no fee arrangements
- 06/08 Update on immigration regulations
- 05/08 Extension of right to request flexible working
- 04/08 Extension of information and consultation obligations
- 04/08 Changes to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975
- 03/10 Changes to UK immigration law - points for employers to note
- 03/08 Compromise agreements - negotiating your way through them
- 02/08 Spent warnings can be taken into account by employers
- 02/08 TUPE - The key provisions
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