Employment Associate/Senior Associate

at  Gateley

THE TEAM

We have a wealth of experience advising on the full spectrum of HR issues. We help clients with every aspect of the management of their workforce, adding value to their HR function and helping them achieve consistently better outcomes. We provide pragmatic solutions, not just legal opinions, and can work as part of an HR department, act as an HR consultant or advise senior management directly.
Whether our clients are attracting and retaining the best talent, fostering the development of their future workforce, or transforming their teams, we can help to keep risk under control, while coming up with effective commercial solutions that work for our clients’ organisations. We offer support and advice on the full employment lifecycle including recruitment and on-boarding; immigration and mobility; pay – reward and benefits; policies and procedures; developing and training employees; and exit and severances.
We continue to develop and evolve our proposition and are looking for individuals with a ‘can do’ mentality to join the team.

DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND WELL BEING

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley’s culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

THE ROLE

Our Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Tier 2 ranked employment team in Manchester is looking to recruit an Associate or Senior Associate. This is an exciting time to join one of the leading employment teams in the North as we look to expand and you can expect to be fully involved in representing a great client base, from SMEs to PLCs, across a range of sectors including retail, sport, manufacturing, financial services, industrial services and healthcare.

This role offers a very broad variety of work including but not limited to:

• Employment tribunal litigation
• Providing day to day support to HR teams as an integral member of the client’s service delivery team
• HR project work on restructurings, redundancies and TUPE
• Corporate transactional support
• Acting on executive severances/settlement agreements
• Supervising junior members of the team and providing support to the partners
• Regular opportunities to be involved in business development and marketing initiatives to further grow the client base and team

The majority of our work is for private sector respondent clients, although we do also act for a number of senior executives in relation to high value disputes.
This opportunity to join a supportive, committed and energetic team will really appeal to existing associates and senior associates who have gained a broad spectrum of employment experience at a leading law firm and have a strong track record of supporting on high value and complex instructions, with a genuine passion for business development and career progression.