Employment Rights
Rochman Landau LLP’s Employment Team provides its clients with the complete service required to manage an employment relationship effectively.
We can provide a broad range of documents tailored to our clients' requirements including service agreements, contracts of employment, staff manuals and policies, bonus and other incentive plans. We also provide health checks to ensure that existing contracts and policies are up to date with current legal requirements.
Our team is on hand to provide practical guidance on employment issues as they arise, ranging from day to day compliance issues to strategic advice on more complex matters such as discrimination complaints.
The team’s expertise encompasses all areas of law which have an impact on employers such as data protections and smoking.
Whilst we aim to prevent matters reaching the courts or tribunals, our Employment Team has expertise in all areas of employment litigation.
Latest News
Phasing out the default retirement age
Currently, an employer can force an employee to retire at the age of 65 without paying any financial compensation. The only obligation on an employer is to hold a meeting with the member of staff to discuss plans at least six months before their 65th birthday. Although the employee can request to work beyond the default retirement age, the employer does not have to agree to the request, or justify any refusal.
The government plans to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011. I... read more