Employment

Helping you manage all your HR and employment law issues

Our team advises on a wide range of complex employment issues including litigation, dispute resolution and the employment aspects of all corporate transactions.

We specialise in advising corporate clients, financial institutions (FCA regulated), small and medium enterprises as well as individuals, about the plethora of employment law issues that may be relevant to your business.

We can assist at every stage of the employment journey from recruitment practices, workplace procedures, to employment termination and disputes. We are very aware that creating a healthy, happy and motivated workforce is a key part of your success and will work with you to help achieve this.

We also have a great deal of experience in acting for directors and senior executives, as well on workers’ rights, self-employment and consultancy and we have experience of a variety of sectors.

In particular, some of the employment law issues upon which we regularly advise include:

Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation

We have extensive experience in contentious matters and dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration and mediation of employee claims. We have particular experience in injunctions: protection of confidential information and restrictive covenants.

We can advise in respect of all aspects of TUPE and how it effects business relations.

Contractual disputes and advice

In an advisory capacity we can assist with recruitment and hiring, drafting and negotiating employment contracts, agency and contractor arrangements, secondments, employee relations, flexible working, diversity and equality, hours and pay, boardroom and senior executive issues, grievance handling, whistle-blowing and disciplinary issues.

We can also assist with employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions, outsourcings, redundancies and restructurings.

When it comes to reaching a settlement, we will assist in all negotiations, providing pragmatic and innovative solutions as well as professional drafting of your settlement agreement.

Diversity, discrimination and harassment

We advise on all areas of diversity and inclusion, harassment and bullying, and discrimination in the workplace.

Again, this may include anything from recruitment and hiring, drafting policy documents and workplace handbooks to managing employee relations, grievance handling, disciplinary issues and settlement.

Regulatory investigations

We can assist with complex employment investigation disputes, which often involve employee misconduct and / or whistle-blowing claims. We undertake and advice on PRA/FCA matters and disputes.

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If you have an HR or employment issue, call us to speak to a member of our team.

Solicitors in Employment

Nighat Sahi

Partner

Nighat has been superb, very thorough and a very nice person too, I couldn’t recommend her highly enough. I am confident that I am safe in her hands.

Some advice to everyone out there is make sure that you have Nighat Sahi of RSW Law on your contact list, so you have someone to contact immediately if you need help. In over 30 years of running Interface Financial Planning I have never had to suffer a malicious court action before and I made the initial mistake of trying to deal with it myself. If I had passed this to Nighat on the day of receipt it would have saved a lot of stress and time.

Alan Moran, B.Sc. M.Soc.Sc. Cert.Ed. FPFS FSWW IMC CFPCM RLP® Chartered Financial Planner – Chartered FCSI, Interface Financial Planning Limited

Nighat Sahi

Partner

Nighat is an experienced solicitor who advises and represents both companies and individuals. She is a founding partner at RSW Law. With over 18 years of experience, she specialises in all key areas of employment law, business and in bound immigration work. She has been involved in numerous complex, high value and multi-faceted matters including complex injunctions, damages claims and high value negotiations in contractual disputes and severance packages.

Nighat’s experience includes litigation and representation at Employment or Immigration Tribunal level right through to the Court of Appeal, advice on best practice, procedures and policies, drafting key employment documents, managing grievances, disciplinary action and performance related concerns and lawful dismissals. Also an experienced immigration solicitor, Nighat has extensive knowledge of business immigration, placing employees across UK companies in addition to dealing with the Global Mobility Routes and selective family visas.

Clients value Nighat’s approach and find her highly organised, knowledgeable, and extremely personable. She takes a proactive approach, working to avoid problems in the first place. If the worst does happen, she works hard to resolve things in the most cost effective and timely way possible and you’ll find her down to earth and hands on.

Nighat is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association, is the Current Chair of Kiran Support Services (a Charity – supporting the needs of women and children from the Indian sub-continent experiencing domestic violence and abuse) and acts for The Black-E (a Charity Education, Enthusiasm, Energy, Connecting artists and communities) on a pro bono basis.

Nighat has recently achieved a victory for a client in a speedy trial. The full Judgment can be read here: https://www.civillitigationbrief.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Cheshire-v-Blanchfield.pdf

Outside of work, Nighat is a gym enthusiast, foody, loves her films, travelling and spends her time with her ten nephews and nieces.

Employment

Helping you manage all your HR and employment law issues

Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation

Contractual disputes and advice

Diversity, discrimination and harassment

Regulatory investigations

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Solicitors in Employment

Nighat Sahi