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KPMG Law UK

Employment: Employer

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KPMG Law UK

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Pay compliance: Advising on all matters relating to pay compliance, including National Minimum Wage, Holiday Pay, and dispute management, partnering with payroll, employment tax and data colleagues.

Fair pay: We lead the way in Pay Gap Reporting advisory services, Equal Pay advice, auditing, and Pay Transparency. All our solutions are supported by bespoke KPMG technology.

Employment status and off payroll workers: We team with our Employment Tax colleagues to provide holistic advice and dispute resolution services regarding all aspects of employment status.

Investigations and disputes: Our employment law and employee relations expertise, supported by forensic and IT services, allows you to manage complex investigations and employment disputes in a controlled and governed way.

Workforce change: Experienced in managing complex change programmes, including collective redundancies, restructures, outsourcing or novel workforce engagement.

Global workforce: Our global employment law network can be leveraged with project management from our UK team as needed, delivering global employment law solutions.

Employment Law Advisory/Employee Relations advice: From managing a grievance to rewriting contracts and policies, our team delivers advice with clear pathways to implementation.

Holistic solutions: We partner with our colleagues providing workforce solutions outside of law including employment tax, employer reward, payroll advisory, forensics, data analytics and people consulting.

Chambers Review

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Employment: Employer - London (Firms)

Band 5

Band 5


What the Team is Known For

KPMG houses a strong employment law offering that focuses on representing public companies and other large employers in business-critical employment matters. The team advises clients on issues such as workforce pay and compliance, changes to the workforce including restructurings and redundancies, and corporate support matters. It has a client base drawn from a range of sectors such as retail, financial services and consumer goods. In addition, the department benefits from being able to support its clients with bespoke technological products.

Strengths

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  • They have good depth and breadth of knowledge and available resources as well as having a good understanding of our business and providing comprehensive reports and action plans to support us.

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  • The knowledge and professionalism of the experts in the department is excellent and all are subject matter experts in their field.

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  • The team were responsive to our needs, commercial and thorough in responses, calling out best practice, legal advice and flagging where relevant case law.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Band 5Donna Sharp
    Band 5Donna Sharp

    Donna Sharp

    KPMG partner Donna Sharp is adept at handling a range of matters for clients across the retail and financial services sectors. Her expertise includes acting for clients on equal pay and worker status disputes.
    • Donna is an ultra professional, an expert and collaborative. She is a strong partner to us to whom we are very grateful.

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    • She is very commercial, pragmatic and cuts to the heart of the issues.

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    • Donna continues to provide the right level of support and service for our needs.

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  • Up and ComingDorothée Giret
    Up and ComingDorothée Giret

    Dorothée Giret

    Dorothée Giret is a director at KPMG who regularly advises clients on national minimum wage compliance and TUPE transfers. She acts for employers across the financial services and retail sectors, among others.
    • Dorothée provides sound advice, exceptional services, timely responses and superb client relationship skills. She has deep subject matter expertise, and is pragmatic and commerical.

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    • She demonstrated empathy, clear understanding of the situation and offered support and practical advice.

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    • She always provides a very high level of service and comprehensive answers and solutions, grasping the issue and bringing in the wider market context where appropriate.

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    • Dot provides practical and pragmatic advice.

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