Katherine Pope

Katherine advises businesses on all aspects of employment law and HR issues including disciplinary and grievance disputes, whistleblowing complaints, reorganisations, performance issues and dealing with employees suffering from ill health. She has a particular focus on the financial services sector, and her work often involves a regulatory angle, including in the context of investigations.

Katherine regularly negotiates and documents complex employee exit arrangements and has conducted a broad range of proceedings in the Employment Tribunal. She has a keen interest in discrimination law and collective redundancy consultation.

Katherine also frequently handles consultancy and service agreements and has particular experience in relation to questions of employment status and the application of the off-payroll working rules (IR35).

Katherine has spent time on secondment working in-house at Royal Mail and at a large financial institution, where she advised on a wide breadth of HR issues (including complex grievance and disciplinary matters) and assisted in handling collective redundancy situations.

Katherine regularly leads training sessions and hosts seminars, delivering insights on the latest developments in UK employment law to a wide range of clients.