Harmajinder Hayre | Partner, Employment

Harmajinder has more than a decade’s specialist experience in employment law.

He regularly advises clients in the retail, financial services and transport sector on strategic collective industrial relations issues. In particular, Harmajinder has developed an expertise in High Court litigation in relation to breaches of confidentiality and restrictive covenants.

His work regularly involves planning and providing strategic advice set in the context of a union-backed workforce on issues such as restructurings/reorganisations, equal pay, TUPE, and industrial action.

He is a regular speaker on employment law issues and devises and delivers training programmes for clients and professional bodies.

Harmajinder has advised on a range of matters including:

• advice to a financial service company on employee aspects of a £2bn outsourcing programme;
• obtaining interim undertakings and negotiating a six figure damages settlement in the High Court on behalf of a national financial services broker against a team of ex - brokers who had set up in competition in breach of their restrictive covenants and misuse of confidential information;
• successfully calling off industrial action brought by a union in breach of the statutory balloting requirements both in the private and health sector;
• advising an international engineering company on employee aspects of a major restructuring programme;
• advising the UK subsidiary companies of a US multinational company on implementing employee aspects of the Data Protection Act 1998 and setting up Safe Harbour status;
• representing a UK based private sector company against the Northern Ireland Equal Opportunities Commission on a nine-day hearing alleging discrimination on the grounds of sex, part-time workers status, unfair dismissal and victimisation.

Harmajinder has considerable experience of advising board members, accountants and venture capitalists on the individual and collective employee obligations of companies in financial difficulties.