NHS employment

Hill Dickinson’s health team includes a specialist group providing quality advice and practical solutions on employment-related issues in the health sector.

Areas of expertise include:

  • Contracts of employment, policy documents and staff handbooks
  • Equal pay, discrimination, victimisation and harassment
  • Disciplinary, dismissal and grievance procedures
  • Maternity and parental rights
  • Working time
  • Pay, benefits and pensions
  • Trades unions and industrial action
  • Transfers of undertakings (TUPE)
  • Whistle blowing
  • Employment tribunal proceedings

 

Key contacts


Philip Farrar
Partner
Philip Farrar
Telephone
+44 (0) 151 600 8615
Email
philip.farrar@hilldickinson.com
Andrew Gibson
Partner
Andrew Gibson
Telephone
+44 (0) 1244 896627
Email
andrew.gibson@hilldickinson.com
James Upton
Partner
James Upton
Telephone
+44 (0) 161 817 7262
Email
james.upton@hilldickinson.com

       
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