With clients spanning international financial services and pensions groups, public sector employees, and hospitality and retail employers, Appleby‘s employment practice leads on contentious and non-contentious instructions spanning equal pay, discrimination and dismissal claims, regulatory counsel amid restructurings and transactions, and regulatory investigations. Practice head Richard Sheldon specialises on high-value severance disputes and contentious regulatory matters. Niall MacDonald advises on employment due diligence in transactions, while James Gallimore has a burgeoning practice in contentious tribunal cases.
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Key clients
- Barclays Group
- Canaccord Genuity Wealth
- Eversheds Sutherland
- HSBC Group
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- WM Morrisons plc
- PIB Group Limited
- Praxis Group
- Suntera Global
Work highlights
Instructed by a number of senior civil servants in respect of an industrial tribunal claim which seeks to overturn changes made to the public sector pension scheme in 2016, including a change from final salary to a career average.
Instructed on Guernsey’s first ever equal pay case and the first case anywhere in the British Isles involving a race-related claim of equal pay, as opposed to simply direct discrimination.
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Practice head
Richard Sheldon
Other key lawyers
Niall McDonald; James Gallimore