Source: Chambers 2010

Carson McDowell's Employment Team understands the HR/employment issues and challenges facing its clients.

The Team's clients are primarily employers.  The Team acts for a range of clients from public sector to small, local businesses to internationally known, publicly owned companies. The Team's client base also straddles a range of industries which include education, retail, financial and professional services and media/entertainment.   The Team provides employment law advice to a significant number of the companies listed in the Top 100 Companies in Northern Ireland 2009.

The Team provides a range of services from telephone ‘helpline' advice, holding on site HR clinics, advising on employee disputes and contentious matter, project managing large scale reorganisations and a full insurance backed employer product.

The addition of Lisa Bryson from Eversheds in London to the Team means that the Team can now offer employment law advice in relation to matters arising in England and Wales as well as Northern Irish matters.  This removes the need for a number of our clients to seek legal counsel in England in addition to a legal advisor here and provides consistency across the clients' HR practices on both sides of the water.

The Team also helps educate their clients.  This training may be in the form of bespoke training to meet a particular training need or in the form or update email

• Preparing, negotiating and reviewing employment contracts
• Advising on executive and directors remuneration packages and tax issues relevant to the employer/employee relationship
• Providing advice and representation in Industrial and Fair Employment Tribunals
• Advising clients on injunctive remedies
• Managing large scale reorganisation projects (TUPE, redundancy and changes of terms and conditions)
• Advising on pensions issues

For more information, contact:

	Orlagh O\'Neill
	Lisa Bryson
	Rachel Penny
	Brian Turtle