Steven Eckett
Steven joined iLaw in March 2009 and specialises in all aspects of employment law.
Steven qualified as a Solicitor in 1994 and has enjoyed an unusual and varied legal career in both industry and private practice.
Steven has spent most of his career as a specialist in-house employment lawyer with sector-leading businesses, in a variety of different sectors including:
- Engineering, construction, oil and gas, with US-owned group Halliburton
- Waste management, with SITA
- Media and publishing, with Highbury House
- Security and risk management, with Global Strategies Group
This gives a highly practical perspective to his advice, as well as the ability to focus on the issues that really matter to the client, for example while handling an Employment Tribunal claim involving more than 300 claimants.
Steven returned to private practice in 2007 when he joined stevensdrake based near Gatwick as Head of Employment.
Steven has extensive experience in the following:
- Drafting Contracts of Employment, Staff Handbooks and Director's Service Agreements
- Advising on best practice employment policies and procedure
- Advising on the impact of the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
- Redundancy programmes
- Data Protection in an HR context
- Health and Safety in the workplace
- Restrictive Covenants and confidentiality
- Advising on dismissal, disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Compromise and severance agreements
- Advising on difficult Employees
- Advising on unlawful discrimination (Sex, Race, Disability, Age, Religion and Belief, and sexual orientation)
- Breach of Contract
- Representation at the Employment Tribunal.
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