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Tom Williams

07841 103 973 tom.d.williams@pwc.com

Work Department

Employment

Position

Tom is a Partner is the Employment practice.

Career

Tom has almost 20 years’ experience advising household name clients at the highest level on their UK and international HR legal challenges.

Tom heads the firm’s industrial relations practice, focussing on helping employers manage their trade union related issues. He has extensive experience of supporting unionised employers on a wide range of challenges, including defending High Court litigation arising from industrial disputes, managing global trade union strategy, consultation/ negotiations with unions and employee forums and the setting up of and consultation with European Works Councils.

Tom is an expert on worker status and pay governance, supporting clients in the gig-economy and more broadly on NMW, IR35 and worker and employment status issues.

Tom draws his clients from a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on retail and consumer clients.

Legal 500 2021, notes that Tom ‘has extensive industrial relations and national minimum wage practical experience. He has an excellent strategic brain and is also very pragmatic and innovative in his thinking.’