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Emma is an Associate in the Employment team and advises clients on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious across a variety of business sectors.

She has particular expertise in relation to international issues. She regularly advises on the assignment of employees abroad and the global movement of employees. In addition, she assists clients with cross border projects such as implementing new terms and conditions of employment, or establishing the legality of new policies across multiple jurisdictions. Emma regularly co-ordinates multi-jurisdictional advisers to assist clients in implementing an overall strategy on employment issues in a number of jurisdictions.

In addition, Emma provides support to the Corporate team on the employment aspects of transactions, ranging from share sales to business transfers. She regularly advises on TUPE transfers, both in this context and in the context of outsourcing projects. Emma also frequently advises clients on large scale restructuring and redundancy programmes.

Emma provides advice to clients on day to day operational issues such as disciplinary and grievance matters, sickness absence, termination of employment contracts and negotiation of settlements.

Examples of Emma’s legal experience:

• Advising a software security company on changes to its employee compensation plan across three jurisdictions and assisting the client in creating a strategy that could be applied uniformly across the jurisdictions.
• Advising a French company on the closure of one of its UK subsidiaries, including the timetable and implementation of the redundancy programme and other matters related to the closure.
• Advising an education and career services company on the implementation of new service agreements for its senior management team across five jurisdictions and co-ordinating advice from the jurisdictions on the implementation of the new service agreements.

The Employment team uses email alerts to give clients practical updates on developments in employment law, these can be viewed by clicking here.

To view a full version of Emma’s CV, please click here.

Additional Information

• Interests
• Emma is a member of the Law Society and the Employment Lawyers Association. She facilitates at the Employment Lawyers Association annual conference. She regularly writes articles and presents seminars on all aspects of employment law.
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