Richard Thomas
About
Provided by Richard Thomas
Practice Areas
Richard is a Partner in our Employment and Immigration team. He specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law, advising clients in the public and private sectors.
Richard provides strategic advice on collective employee consultation duties and obligations arising out of company restructures, acquisitions, mergers, collective redundancies and outsourcing. This work includes informing, consulting and negotiating with Trade Unions to avoid legal claims and industrial action, as well as the application of TUPE.
Richard has extensive Employment Tribunal advocacy experience across the UK and has successfully undertaken judicial and commercial mediation cases.
Richard advises on all the individual and collective employment law obligations arising out of Insolvency situations and any subsequent restructures and/or business transfers including employee rights; the legal obligations concerning individual and collective consultation and the application of UK law.
Career
Partner, Capital Law Limited (2007 – present)
Associate, Eversheds LLP (1999 – 2007)
In House Employment Counsel, GlaxoSmithKline (2006 – 2007 16-month secondment)
In House Employment Lawyer for NHS Wales, Welsh Health Legal Services (1996 – 1999)
Professional Memberships
The Law Society of England and Wales
Employment Lawyers’ Association
Industry Sector Expertise
Brexit
Employment
GDPR
Information & Data Managment
Recovery & Insolvency
Chambers Review
UK
Richard Thomas provides advice on a broad range of HR and employment law matters. He has notable experience handling discrimination and unfair dismissal cases.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Richard is extremely knowledgeable and has a lot of awareness and understanding of the challenges our business faces. He provides sound advice."
"He has excellent all-round knowledge."
"Richard is extremely knowledgeable and has a lot of awareness and understanding of the challenges our business faces. He provides sound advice."
"He has excellent all-round knowledge."
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