Employment and Workplace

Employment and workplace disputes require intensive management resources and an employment tribunal is an expensive and stressful option for both employee and employer, whatever the outcome. They can also be the cause of significant damage to reputation and to relationships with customers and suppliers and invariably affect productivity and progress.

Many of our mediators have long experience in employment related disputes and can offer a personalised mediation process to deal with even the most sensitive issues, for example in disputes involving stress, sickness and disability. Typically the areas include any mix of:

• Unfair dismissal
• Constructive dismissal
• Part-time working, flexible working, maternity/paternity rights and parental leave
• Redundancy, compromise agreements, restrictive covenants
• Sexual harassment, victimisation, discrimination and bullying in the workplace
• Whistleblowing
• Multiple claims
• Senior executive and board level disputes
• Remuneration and performance related pay and bonuses

Our experienced employment mediators can offer a tailor-made approach to resolving complex disputes including those which involve multiple claimants or union members. The benefits for employers and employees alike include:

• dealing sympathetically and effectively with disputes that go to the heart of people's lives and well-being
• confidential and individual solutions
• early resolution resulting in savings in management time and reducing the risk of additional stress, sickness or absence from work.

For advice on the In Place of Strife mediators with the right experience for your case, please contact our senior case manager, Joanne Claypole.