Harmajinder Hayre

Harmajinder has advised on a range of matters including:

• Advice to a financial service company on employee aspects of a £2bn outsourcing programme
• Obtaining interim undertakings and negotiating a six figure damages settlement in the High Court on behalf of a national financial services broker against a team of ex – brokers who had set up in competition in breach of their restrictive covenants and misuse of confidential information;
• Successfully calling off industrial action brought by a union in breach of the statutory balloting requirements both in the private and health sectors
• Advising an international engineering company on employee aspects of a major restructuring programme
• Advising a local authority controlled company (LACC) on the TUPE and employee relations issues on the merging of 4 local authority services across 4 counties into the newly created LACC;
• Advising a major food retailer on carrying out a collective consultation exercise involving the re-organisation of shift patterns and premium payments affecting over 700 employee
• Advising a national private sector company providing non-emergency “blue light” services to the NHS, on the TUPE issues and the integration of transferring employees from the NHS to the private sector company
• Advising an energy company in the dismissal of its chief executive and defending a subsequent 7 day Employment Tribunal claim
• Advising the UK subsidiary companies of a US multinational company on implementing employee aspects of the Data Protection Act 1998 and setting up Safe Harbour status
• Representing a UK based private sector company against the Northern Ireland Equal Opportunities Commission on a nine-day hearing alleging discrimination on the grounds of sex, part-time worker’s status, unfair dismissal and victimisation
• Advising a US multi-national courier company on the use of an “Owner Drive” model across its network in the UK, and defending Employment Tribunal claims alleging employee and/or worker status