Alice Giner
Solicitor: Employment
Alice is an associate in the Employment Department. She specialises in all aspects of the employment relationship and employment law issues with a particular sector focus in Media and Financial Services.
Alice has specialist experience advising on the strategy and implementation of business reorganisations including the adoption of individual and collective redundancy processes, outsourcing and workforce-wide changes to terms and conditions of employment.
Alice is a regular speaker at the FSI breakfast forums and contributor to the FSI e-alert service. She also provides bespoke in-house training for clients on topical employment issues relevant to their particular concerns and requirements.
Recent Work
- Tailored advice to large multinational clients on UK employment issues including reorganisations and director level terminations
- Strategic advice to part of a nationwide insurance brokerage on varying terms and conditions of employment to achieve effective business protections without loss of staff or claims
- Advising financial services sector clients on the employment law aspects of conversion from limited company to LLP status - including practical assistance with employee consultation to ensure a successful conversion process
- Advising on business protection and competition issues through the use of restrictive covenant and confidentiality provisions - including practical advice and steps for protecting confidential information from misuse in the workplace
- Providing board level reorganisation advice to a range of clients including high profile media and financial services organisations
- Advising start up companies on the preparation of employment contracts and service agreements
- Providing organisations with “health checks” of their employment practices and documentation for points based sponsorship licence applications
- Employment Tribunal claims involving high value sex discrimination and whistle blowing claims
Recent Articles/Speaking Engagements
- Alice is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and CBI Networking Groups
- Alice is a contributor to the FSI Employment department’s regular e-alerts and breakfast seminars on topical employment law issues.
- Alice also speaks at in-house training seminars tailored for individual clients.
Random Fact
Prior to commencing her legal career Alice had the unusual pleasure of working for Lord Lloyd-Webber as his PA (sadly he was not won over by what can only be described as her unique singing style and thankfully for her clients that particular career never took off).