LAWHIVE ASSOCIATES

The Firm advises both companies and individuals on a wide variety of employment issues. In addition, the wealth of experience of the firm in the media and entertainment sectors enables members of the Group fully to understand the particular employment situations facing the firm's clients in these fields.

The Group's work covers such matters as:

• advice on terms and conditions of employment
• negotiation of service agreements
• negotiation of terms of severance and compromise agreements
• advice on redundancy and dismissal
• advice on the enforceability of restrictive covenants
• representing clients at Employment Tribunals in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims
• advice concerning maternity rights, flexible working arrangements, sickness leave, and the Working Time Regulations
• advice in relation to employment aspects of corporate transactions
• employment-related litigation in the High Court