From our offices in Plymouth and Kingsbridge, our expert employment law solicitors provide advice and representation to help businesses with problems with their employees.
We advise strategically and tactically how to tackle the problem raised by employees. We look to you for your outcome, challenge it to ‘stress test’ it, agree a way forward and implement it.
If you have a problem with an employee the one thing that cannot be permitted is for the situation to continue. We work with you to solve the problem: either the problem is resolved and you have a valued employee – the best outcome – or you have an ex employee.
There can be no problems that will be new to the team. Capability, misconduct, disability, discrimination of all sorts and union related issues and redundancy exercises and ex employee problems such as breach of restrictive covenants.
While we are confident in handling tribunal claims our focus is on problem resolution that does not result in ET claims.
A clear, up to date set of employment contracts and policies is essential for any company to ensure compliance with the law and smooth operation of your business. We can help you with these at a FIXED cost. Click here for more information.
What our clients say
“The workshops that Beers LLP provide are very concrete and easy-to-follow tools, especially with regards to investigation and disciplinary. They make my team feel confident in dealing with different situations within the work place”
Andrew Safo Poku, Head of HR & Support Services, Ultimate Security Services Limited
We can help you with difficulties at work, including unfair dismissal and all forms of discrimination – race, sex, age, religion and disability for example.
When concerns arise, you need good advice right from the outset. We pride ourselves on advice that is:
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Paul graduated from the University of Cambridge before training at the future Clifford Chance. After a short spell there as a solicitor dealing with commercial leases he made the lifestyle choice of moving to general practice in Devon. Paul has then specialised in employment law and for many years has acted as the main employment adviser to several large plc clients as well as looking after smaller employer clients, including firms of solicitors and care homes, and handling claimant work.
Paul has been a partner at Beers LLP since 1982. He has sat as an Employment Judge since 1992, and as a Judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal since 2014. He also has an interest in professional regulation, sitting on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, and being responsible for the regulation of the members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. He is also chairs the Architects Registration Board’s professional conduct committee and is a legal assessor (adviser) for the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practice committees.
Outside the office, Paul much enjoys the company of his wonderful wife and his children as well as outdoor activities such as running on Dartmoor, mountaineering and sailing.
“Beers LLP’s team head Paul Housego is ‘an outstanding individual, who has immense knowledge’ and ‘knows how to put it into practice’.”
Sharmaine is a paralegal in our Plymouth office. Sharmaine has been working in our employment team since joining us in 2015.
Sharmaine has a degree in English Literature and has recently successfully completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at the University of Law in Bristol and is now currently taking the Legal Practice Course part-time at the University of Law in Exeter.
Sharmaine has experience in dealing with both contentious and non-contentious employment law issues for members of the public and for employers. Her experience includes judicial pension claims, discrimination claims, redundancy situations, unfair dismissals, reviewing and drafting employment contracts and settlement agreements.