A good employment lawyer has a kete full of tools and the wisdom to know which to use.
Employment law affects every working person. People and businesses are all wonderfully unique, and so you don’t want a one-size-fits-all approach. Solving employment related problems requires a person who can listen, empathise, strategise and perform with an understanding and precision that fits your circumstances.
When you have an employment problem, you need tenacious advocacy directed at the solution you want. I have many years experience in providing just that.
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No Jab / No Job – the intersection between Public Good and Private Rights
By Amy Keir |
I have not contributed much to the public debate on vaccination and what that means in the employment context. In part that is because the topic has been so well covered, and in other part that is because this period has been about dealing with unique contexts and sets of ...
Please Stop Saying Restraints of Trade are Unenforceable!
By Amy Keir |
Very many employment agreements contain provisions in restraint of trade. These are contractual terms which limit an employee’s freedom to do certain things once the employment relationship has ended. Restraints of trade can take any number of forms, but frequently they prevent employees working for a competitor, working in the ...
Return to Work Health Check
By Amy Keir |
It’s been a long time since I posted a new thought on this blog. Like many of you I’ve been managing the terror, and the overwhelm, and the calm, and the extra work, and the laziness and the backlog of lockdown. To say it has been an emotional rollercoaster would ...
Force Majeure – What Difference Would it Make?
By Amy Keir |
It seems quaint now, but in 2008, employment lawyers were worried about the work-place implications of Bird Flu. We hurried to update employment agreements to include some sort of ‘act of god’ provision that determined how an employment relationship would respond in various circumstances. Ironically, in the decade that followed, ...
Disadvantage Claims – What’s in it for me?
By Amy Keir |
The Employment Relations Act (Act) recognises a number of personal grievances – categories of claims an employee can bring against an employer. By far the most common is a personal grievance alleging unjustified dismissal. There are another eight specific types (discrimination, harassment, duress in relation to union membership and breaches ...
The cost of a week’s holiday
By Amy Keir |
It seems in recent years, we have, in a series of waves, realised how tricky the Holidays Act is to interpret and apply. We now know many employers, including many government departments, have historically got it quite wrong. In my practice now more than ever I am having to examine ...
