Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Robert is a Partner in our Employment, Labor and Pensions Group and heads our education employment practice in our Manchester office.

He advises employers in the UK and internationally across a full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. His work areas include: cross-border/international employment law issues, redundancy/restructuring, collective and trade union issues, senior terminations, complex internal disciplinary and grievance proceedings, discrimination and equality issues (and their interplay with academic freedom/freedom of speech), employment-related data privacy issues, ‘atypical’ working models (including sessional/term-time, zero hours and fixed-term contracts) and ‘whistleblowing’ cases.

Robert also has extensive experience of conducting employment-related investigations for employers across a range of sectors.

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