Our Employment Law and Recruitment teams offer a comprehensive
service in the complex and dynamic field of construction employment
and recruitment law.
The team advise on:
- contracts and policies including audits and reviews of existing
policies
- self-employed and agency worker issues such as entitlement to
holiday pay, National Insurance on holiday pay and employment
status
- advice on the new Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) and
related subcontractor tax status issues. Users of contracted
construction workers are now responsible for assessing whether
subcontractors are genuinely self-employed and need to be aware of
tax and employment status risks
- using agency workers and the new Temporary (Agency) Workers
Directive
- IR35 and the Managed Service Company legislation
- outsourcing the recruitment function and consolidating labour
suppliers
- strategic support which include issues such as restructuring,
relocation, downsizing
- training including legal updates, tailor made courses,
management training.
- Vigil, which is a fixed-cost anxiety-free employment risk management service developed by
Blake Lapthorn in conjunction with Temple Legal Protection
Limited
- disciplinary/termination issues
- working time regulations
- advising the client on and representing them at employment
tribunal
- apprentices.
