Maternity, paternity, adoption and flexible working

The benefits of using our employment laweyrs

The flexibility you need as a mother, father or carer is not always in tune with what your employer requires of you as an employee. If you have been unable to come to an agreement that suits you both, our employment solicitors can clarify your rights and help you weigh up the pros and cons of different options available to you.

How our employment solicitors can help:

• Explain your rights to you
• Help you weigh up the pros and cons and devise a strategy for the best way forward
• Help you pursue your claim
• Maternity and pregnancy discrimination rights under The Equality Act 2010
• Negotiate a fair and amicable exit, if necessary.
   

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• Unfair dismissal
• Discrimination and harassment
  
   

Client stories

A new management team relocated our client to an office 2.5 hours from her home and reneged on her flexible working agreement made following the birth of her daughter. She resigned and we issued proceedings for constructive unfair dismissal and indirect sex discrimination. We recovered her losses up to the time she secured new employment plus an award for injury to feeling.

When our client returned to work after maternity leave, she found that her job had fundamentally changed. We advised her that she was entitled to return to the role she had before but her employer was unwilling to reinstate her previous responsibilities. We helped her negotiate an exit with a compensation payment arising out of her claim for sex discrimination.