Employment Services
Understanding employment issues and how they impact on a business is an essential learning process for many businesses in order for them to run at maximum effectiveness. From recruitment to termination, Mason Hayes can offer to both employer and employee clients, practical advice and guidance on best practice. Mason Hayes can provide assistance on any employment related issue regardless of the size or scope.
Increasingly, employment law and regulation in the workplace has far-reaching consequences. Mason Hayes, with its expert understanding of employment law, rules and regulations, strives to always ensure that the obligations and rights of the employer and employee alike are protected, understood and, if necessary, enforced by the Court.
Managing Tribunal matters is a key part of the Mason Hayes employment services offering. Mason Hayes handles the full range of Tribunal work from unfair dismissal to whistle blowing and from straightforward claims to lengthy discrimination cases.
Additionally, Mason Hayes is experienced in pursuing and defending wrongful dismissal claims in both the Tribunal and County Court, with particular experience in injunctive proceedings arising out of breach of restrictive covenants.
Business transfers can also create particular legal and commercial problems. Mason Hayes’ employment team can help steer those involved to the proper outcome, often working with in-house lawyers to apportion costs and risks.
Mason Hayes strives to always produce clear, plain English documents for our clients that are easy to read and understand. The firm’s employment team can provide client businesses with practical legal advice on a wide and varied range of employment contractual matters. Mason Hayes is also able to offer employment training services to clients focussed on practical and useful employment guidance. Mason Hayes works in partnership with clients to help improve their understanding of important employment legal issues, reduce risk and promote best working practices.
As a firm, our hourly rates, depending upon the seniority of the fee earner, range from £90 plus VAT per hour to £350 plus VAT per hour. We will at the outset of each matter take detailed instructions from you as a client in order to then provide you with a bespoke and tailored quotation for the costs and disbursements that will be incurred in any particular dispute we are instructed upon. Any client of our firm would therefore have as much clarity as is reasonably practical with regard to specific costs that would be incurred at the outset of any matter. We utilise a variety of different charging regimes from hourly charging to fixed fees. Full information and details are available on request.
