Paul McGrath advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors in all areas of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law.
His practice covers all aspects of UK employment legislation and day-to-day employment matters, including appointments and terminations, employment status and worker classification issues, employment policies, employee data privacy, disciplinary and grievance issues, and restructuring and redundancy exercises.
Paul advises on the full range of contentious employment matters, including claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract.
As part of his non-contentious work, Paul advises on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions, including share sales, business transfers and joint ventures, not least the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE).
Paul has particular experience advising on the handling of employee-related privacy and data protection issues, including in the context of workplace investigations, international data transfers, the implementation of whistleblowing hotlines and subject access rights.
Paul regularly devises and delivers client-training seminars and also speaks on topical employment and data protection law issues at external conferences.
Paul has prior experience working in-house for clients in the information technology and banking sectors.
Education
University of Leicester, LLM, Employment Law, Distinction, 2012
Nottingham Law School, LPC, Distinction, 2005
Durham University, LLB, (Hons), 2004
Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe (CIPP/E), 2016
Admissions
The Law Society of England and Wales, 2008
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