Jo Powis
Senior Counsel
Jersey
Jo provides comprehensive advice across all areas of employment law, with particular expertise in whistleblowing and complex discrimination claims.
Her experience includes:
- internal investigations
- grievance and disciplinary processes
- whistleblowing procedures and complaints
- discrimination claims
- managing poor performance and sickness absence
- terminations and settlement negotiations
- redundancies and restructures
- employment procedures and policies
- employment contracts
- drafting and enforcing post-termination restrictions
- employment aspects of acquisitions, disposals and outsourcings
Jo regularly represents clients in complex Tribunal proceedings, including claims involving discrimination, unfair dismissal and whistleblowing.
She also provides strategic counsel on large-scale projects, including restructures, policy review processes and corporate transactions.
Jo also has in-house experience from 6 month secondments to the employment law teams at a major bank and a global telecommunications company.
Experience and recent work
Prior to her current role, Jo spent 16 years practising in the London office of a major international law firm where she advised clients across a diverse range of sectors including financial services, insurance, e-commerce, media and entertainment, telecommunications and retail on both contentious and non-contentious employment matters.
Qualifications
Education:
Legal Practice Course (LPC), Nottingham Law School
LLB (Hons) Law, University of Nottingham
Member of the Employment Lawyers Association
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