Experienced Employment Solicitor –

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Employment Solicitor to join our specialist Recruitment and Workforce Solutions team. The specialist team have significant experience and expertise in all areas of recruitment law working with employers and recruiters of all sizes and handling director disputes, exit strategies and settlement agreements employment contracts and service agreements.

The team also advises on redundancies and reorganisations, TUPE, outsourcing, employment tribunal claims, data protection issues, complex discrimination cases, post termination obligations, IR35 and general recruitment issues arising from using and supplying temporary workers and contractors.

As part of this role, you will specialise in delivering comprehensive services to diverse range of businesses within the recruitment sector. Ideally we are looking for a Solicitor with the experience below, however we would consider applications from experienced employment solicitors who have a strong interest in this sector and are keen to specialise in this field.

• Experience of supplying legal services to a range of businesses in the Recruitment & Workforce Solutions sector including, employment agencies, employment businesses, umbrella companies, professional employment organisations, master and neutral vendors.
• Engaging and communicating with a variety of stakeholders to satisfactorily resolve legal queries and disputes
• Public speaking experience to diverse audiences
• Advising clients on contentious and non-contentious sector legal issues
• Working with a team to successfully manage Employment Tribunal litigation and resolving employment related disputes through ACAS, Mediation and negotiations
• Advising and managing sector regulatory investigations on behalf of clients
• Advising on status, IR35, gig economy and CIS issues
• Working with litigation, corporate and commercial colleagues to deliver sector client projects

Benefits

Our successful candidate will have an incredible opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award-winning law firm in a flexible and agile working environment.

We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days' holiday (increasing to 32 days through our loyalty recognition programme) plus the option to purchase an extra five days each year.

We also offer a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance, as well as plenty of opportunities to get involved in our colleague committees to make a real impact in our local communities.

About Brabners

Brabners is purpose-led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award-winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we're proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

Brabners is the best law firm to work for in the UK in the Best Companies aware league table and we have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.

We have a number of colleague-led affinity groups including for LGBTQ+, REACH, physical and mental health and social mobility, as well as a sustainability, environmental and green group.

It's all part of how we make the difference.