Employment - UK
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
The knowledge and professionalism of the experts in the department is excellent and all are subject matter experts in their field.
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.
The team were responsive to our needs, commercial and thorough in responses, calling out best practice, legal advice and flagging where relevant case law.
Notable practitioners
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 continues to provide the right level of support and service for our needs.
Donna is an ultra professional, an expert and collaborative. She is a strong partner to us to whom we are very grateful.
She is very commercial, pragmatic and cuts to the heart of the issues.
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.
She demonstrated empathy, clear understanding of the situation and offered support and practical advice.
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.
Dorothée provides sound advice, exceptional services, timely responses and superb client relationship skills. She has deep subject matter expertise, and is pragmatic and commerical.
Dot provides practical and pragmatic advice.
