Nick Phillips
Partner
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Practice areas
Nick has specialised in employment law for over 10 years.
Prior to joining Beswicks, he worked as an in-house lawyer for Michelin Tyre PLC (including a spell at their corporate headquarters in France). He was also part of a senior management team and has a wealth of commercial experience.
Nick handles all contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. He concentrates almost exclusively on working for employers. He acts for large corporate clients and owner managed businesses; focusing on finding effective solutions to their people management issues.
Specialisms
- Compromise agreements
- Contract, policy and handbook drafting and implementation
- Disciplinary/grievance issues and managing employee performance and absence
- Discrimination claims
- Dispute resolution - employment tribunals/court actions
- Redundancy and restructuring
- Restraint of trade and confidentiality
- Termination of employment including unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal claims
- TUPE, business transfers and outsourcing
- Employment law training
Recent advice
- Strategic advice on varying terms and conditions relating to pay for a significant number of remote workers
- Drafting an absence management toolkit
- Advising and representing a company facing a complex unfair dismissal and disability discrimination claim
- Advising on impact of failure to consult prior to a TUPE transfer
- Drafting core employment documents (contract of employment, policies and procedures) for a new business venture and training key personnel on the implementation of these core documents
- Advice on two major outsource projects
- Advising and successfully defending a client in tribunal against a complex race discrimination and unfair dismissal claim
- Advising on compromise agreements
Personal
- Keen golfer and Liverpool fan
- Other interests include good food and wine and hill walking
- Nick is married with two boys
