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.