Employment Solicitor

Slater and Gordon Lawyers; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent law firm in Manchester is seeking an Employment Solicitor to join their successful team. This role involves advising on various employment law matters, managing complex negotiations, and providing top-class legal advice. The ideal candidate will have solid experience in employment law and will enjoy hybrid working arrangements. Benefits include generous leave, health programs, and extensive career development opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office

25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

Employee Referral scheme

Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Life Assurance cover

Workplace pension

Qualifications

• Experience in equality/discrimination and employment tribunals.
• Extremely proficient within Employment law.
• Experience in redundancy and restructure, employment terminations and TUPE agreements.
• Background in supervision and/or line management.

Responsibilities

• Advising on equality/discrimination matters, employment tribunals, redundancy, restructuring, employment terminations, and TUPE agreements.
• Managing client meetings and leading complex negotiations.
• Reviewing and drafting contracts.
• Negotiating settlements and managing your own caseload.
• Providing top-class legal advice where required.
• Supervision and line management with a commercial focus on chargeable hours and billing.

Skills

Experience in equality/discrimination and employment tribunals

Extremely proficient within Employment law

Experience in redundancy and restructure

Background in supervision and/or line management

Job description

Employment Solicitor

Slater and Gordon Lawyers
Manchester
£47,036 per year - estimated ?
NEW

We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented Lawyer to join our hugely successful Employment team in Manchester.

Responsibilities

• Advising on equality/discrimination matters, employment tribunals, redundancy, restructuring, employment terminations and TUPE agreements.
• Managing client meetings and leading complex negotiations.
• Reviewing and drafting contracts.
• Negotiating settlements, supporting clients through their cases, and managing your own caseload.
• Providing top‑class legal advice where required.
• Supervision and line management with a commercial focus on chargeable hours and billing.

Qualifications

• Experience in equality/discrimination and employment tribunals.
• Extremely proficient within Employment law.
• Experience in redundancy and restructure, employment terminations and TUPE agreements.
• Background in supervision and/or line management.

What we offer in return

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute).
• 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday.
• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays.
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days.
• Employee Referral scheme.
• Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme).
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP’s, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and more.
• Employee Assistance Programme – free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions.
• Group Income Protection – supports you with an income if you cannot work long term due to qualifying illness or injury.
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and more.
• Life Assurance cover.
• Workplace pension.
• Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services (cinema tickets, food & drink, travel, high‑street stores).
• Dental Insurance.
• Free legal help and discounted lawyer‑led legal services.

Your Professional Development

We will support and encourage you with developing your career with an award‑winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That’s why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values. How we work is guided by the S+G Way. This means:

• We do what we say we will.
• We don’t wait – we create.
• We own it, we sort it.
• We respect and encourage each other.
• We make time to live.

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