Experts
IN EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR OVER 50 YEARS
Our story
We believe employment law and HR should go hand in hand. Our employment lawyers are highly experienced and offer commercially minded service as well as operationally aware advice. They combine their expertise in both fields to provide innovative people management.
We add value by getting to know how your business works, what your priorities are and how much support your business needs. The way we offer employment law support provides you with a real choice, the ability to control costs and to get exceptional results. All our fees are transparent.
We work in partnership with you to help your business succeed. We remove the complexities of employment law, add skills and confidence to your team, and allow you to concentrate on simply running your business.
Wherever you are, we can support you. Our clients range from small businesses to national multi-site operations and large companies with an international presence. We practise law throughout the UK. We advise clients in the Republic of Ireland and we can call on employment specialists in other countries.
What we do
We offer a range of services to suit the needs of your business.
From the start, we appoint a lead consultant to work directly with you and help you to create an employment law service package that fits your needs – whether that is a simple telephone call, face-to-face meetings, training or drafting the documents you need.
CASE STUDIES
Aligning job evaluation and pay bands “We have built up a strong working relationship with Watershed over many years and always receive sound advice and guidance on job evaluation, pay and grading matters.” Audit Scotland supports the Auditor General and the Accounts Commission with financial and performance auditing to ensure that Scotland’s public funds are…
Employment law support Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services is a long-standing Watershed client. It helps its customers to provide high-quality inspections and repairs, term maintenance or new build capital projects by supplying a broad range of products and services. These include scaffolding, insulation, cladding, coating, labour, project management, and safety systems. It employs approximately 2,500…
Support on reward Watershed has provided support on employment law and managing people to Benchmark Sport since 2019. Benchmark Sport is the holding company for a global network of brands and businesses that develop sport-related networks in the business and social sectors. These brands include Think Beyond, Beyond Sport, SIG, NSE and TrybWorld. In February…
Recent News
Is this the end of confidential settlements for harassment?
Proposed restrictions on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in the Employment Rights Bill could change how UK employers handle discrimination and harassment claims. Here is what Human Resources (HR) needs to know. What is happening? A government-backed amendment to the Employment Rights Bill would make certain confidentiality clauses void. Specifically, those that attempt to prevent workers from…
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Surveillance at work: who is watching and who is watched more?
You have rolled out a new productivity tool to your customer service teams. It logs keystrokes, flags long idle times, and uses webcam verification to confirm who is at the desk. It is billed as ‘smart management’. Then someone notices a pattern. The system alerts seem to cluster around a small group of employees, many…
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Fair redundancy needs a real search
How should you handle redeployment in a redundancy? You are managing a redundancy process. One employee, well-liked, long-serving, clearly capable, is at risk. There are other vacancies around the business, but you tell him to check the internal jobs board and wish him luck. He is not offered help, no one tells the hiring managers…
If no one has ever used a substitute, do you really have a substitution clause?
How should you manage self-employed contractors without drifting into worker status? If you hire casual staff – drivers, delivery couriers, hospitality workers – you might be relying on a substitution clause in their contracts to argue they are not workers. They can send someone else, the clause says. So, they are not personally obliged. So…
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