Employment Lawyer - 1-3 years PQE

We are looking for Lawyers to join our market leading Employment Practice in our newly established team in Belfast working primarily with our London team as well as across the region and the globe.

Our Employment team work with our clients on the full range of domestic and international employment issues. We work with a broad range of blue chip and global clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, TMT, pharmaceutical, transport, consumer and retail. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team in Belfast working alongside and as an integral part of the London team handling high quality, varied and interesting work.  This will include global projects and transactions, high profile domestic instructions, complex litigation, and strategic HR advisory work.

Responsibilities:

Examples of matters you can be involved in include: 

Transactions:

• Advising on diligence reviews and preparing diligence reports

Redundancy:

• Advising on when a redundancy situation arises and requirements of individual and collective redundancy procedures
• Advising on domestic issues such as   pooling and the application of appropriate selection criteria

Multi-jurisdictional projects:

• Being part of a team working on global or multi-jurisdictional projects, such as restructuring exercises, global policy or contract reviews, pay equity reviews and other compliance projects

Litigation:

• Working on Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and equal pay claims
• Managing and conducting disclosure exercises
• Preparing ET3 forms, Grounds of Resistance and witness statements
• Advising on and negotiating settlements
• Advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants

Investigations:

• Conducting fact finding investigations into employee allegations, including grievances and whistleblowing allegations;
• Advising on investigation procedures including scoping

Data Subject Access Requests:

• Preparing data privacy notices
• Advising on applicable search terms in response to data subject access requests
• Reviewing and redacting documents as required

Travel requirements: Some travel may be required.

Essential Criteria

To be successful in this role you will need:

Skills and Experience:

• Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales
• Excellent academics coupled with evidence of good quality training and strong employment experience gained from a leading employment practice
• Good commercial mind-set, a strong team player and have the ability to build excellent relationships with clients