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Helen Beech is a senior consultant in the employment team.
Helen has over 30 years’ experience and has been ranked band 1 in Chambers and Partners 2023 in employment and HR related matters.
She is an industrial relations specialist having been involved in a significant number of high profile and complex restructurings and change programmes, supporting her clients, in both unionised and non-unionised environments to negotiate their way through the challenges of pay disputes, contingency planning, reputation management, strikes and union recognition bids. She has a wealth of experience advising on and managing large-scale consultation processes, employee engagement programmes and setting up employee forums.
She also acts for both companies and individuals negotiating settlement packages, often in situations involving complex discrimination issues, ranging from disability, transgender and race discrimination as well as equal pay cases, often combined with whistleblowing allegations and reputation management challenges.
Her significant expertise and longstanding trusted relationships with clients mean she always has a focus on practical and commercial solutions for businesses, drawing on other practice areas and specialist experience within the HR consultancy.
Redundancy / Restructuring
Helen has supported a number of major clients during the process of implementing major changes programmes including changes to terms & conditions, working arrangements, shifts patterns, closures of final salary or other pension schemes, managing the election process from start to finish, advising on collective consultation obligations and working with employee and trade union reps, supporting redundancy processes and minimising protective award risks.
TUPE and business transfers
Helen has supported a number of major clients during the process of implementing changes to or closures of final salary or other pension schemes, managing the election process from start to finish, including the auto-enrolment process, working with pension advisors to those facing the enrolment challenge.
Pension changes and auto-enrolment
Helen has supported a number of major clients during the process of implementing changes to or closures of final salary or other pension schemes, managing the election process from start to finish, including the auto-enrolment process, working with pension advisors to those facing the enrolment challenge.
Discrimination and harassment
Helen has supported a number of major clients during the process of implementing changes to or closures of final salary or other pension schemes, managing the election process from start to finish, including the auto-enrolment process, working with pension advisors to those facing the enrolment challenge.
Industrial Relations
Helen has for many years helped her clients navigate the complex issues around industrial relations, from the cut and thrust of strike action and ballots to contingency planning and reputation management as well as working in helping companies to create and/or work pro-actively in partnership with both employee forums and trade union representative.
Provided by Chambers
Helen Beech maintains an extensive practice encompassing industrial relations and discrimination claims. She frequently advises her clients on HR issues, including disability grievances and restructuring matters.
Provided by Chambers
Helen is awesome - an extremely safe pair of hands, great depth and breadth of expertise, and an absolute pleasure to work with.
Helen always provides clear, concise, pragmatic advice and will always make time for us wherever possible.
She's fantastic - calm under pressure and fully committed to supporting the clients.
She goes the extra mile in her support.
Helen is awesome - an extremely safe pair of hands, great depth and breadth of expertise, and an absolute pleasure to work with.
Helen always provides clear, concise, pragmatic advice and will always make time for us wherever possible.
She's fantastic - calm under pressure and fully committed to supporting the clients.
She goes the extra mile in her support.
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