Offshore: Employment

About

Provided by Appleby

• The team continues to enjoy its position as one of the leading firms advising major corporations and large financial institutions on complex, often cross-border, employment issues across the Channel Islands
• The team is led by practice group head and partner Richard Sheldon, with partner Niall MacDonald, albeit with the team working with clients on a pan-island basis, rather than jurisdictional silos like all of our competitors
• Appleby are one of the very few firms who have two specialist employment law partners who can advise on Guernsey employment law issues, and appear before the Tribunal
• Appleby are the only firm with specialist employment law partners working in all three Crown Dependencies
• Appleby were appointed following a competitive tender process to draft the Official Statutory Guidance to accompany new Discrimination Ordinance
• We have been particularly busy in the Tribunals this year acting for major employers on a number of high value or complex discrimination claims
• The majority of the team’s workload continues to revolve around dealing with high profile and high value executive severance work and advisory work for regulated clients
• We have been engaged to advise on a number of employee share schemes by key UK referrers, such as CMS or boutique firm Tapestry 
• One growth area for the team over the last 12 months has been in the area of pensions
• The firm has continued to advise the Office of the Guernsey Data Protection Commissioner on data protection legislation