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Associate

Caitlin Rees

Associate

About Caitlin

Caitlin is an Associate in the Employment & HR team at Berry Smith, having also trained with Berry Smith before qualifying. On a daily basis, Caitlin advises and assists a range of clients (both employers and employees) on a variety of contentious and non-contentious employment issues.

Specialist Areas:

• Drafting and advising on settlement agreements
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, employee staff handbooks and HR policies and procedures
• Providing training and guidance for managers
• Changes to terms of employment
• Pre-termination negotiations
• Redundancies and reorganisations
• Handling disciplinary and grievance issues
• Performance management and sickness absence management
• TUPE transfers
• General employment and HR queries
• Bringing and defending Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal claims including (discrimination, unfair dismissal including automatic unfair dismissal and constructive unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and whistleblowing matters)
• Employment data protection issues and subject access requests