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Martin Williams is Head of Employment for Mayo Wynne Baxter, and has been with the firm since October 2008.
Martin is responsible for managing and coordinating the Employment Team, and specialises in advising on restructuring and redundancy programmes, TUPE transfers, equality in the workplace, restrictive covenants and data protection. He also handles a variety of tribunal cases, providing a complete service to clients by conducting its own advocacy.
Martin qualified as a Solicitor in 2002 and since then has specialised in employment work. He gained invaluable experience with a Crawley based practice, and prior to working in the profession, was in the arts for 12 years where he managed orchestras in both the UK and USA. Martin is also a member of Employment Lawyers Association.
At work Martin has particular interest in data protection within the employment arena, and he will frequently present seminars and training sessions to clients and associates.
On 1 February 2012, the rates of certain statutory payments and the limits applying to some employment tribunal awards were increased. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal rose from £68,400 to £72,300. The maximum amount of a week’s pay, used to calculate statutory redundancy pay and the basic award, rose from £400 to £430…. Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
February 3rd, 2012
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 (the Regulations) came into force on 1 October 2011, implementing the EU Agency Workers Directive. These Regulations entitle temporary agency workers to be treated the same as permanent employees in relation to basic working and employment conditions as if they had been employed directly by a company (the hirer) to… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
October 3rd, 2011
From 1st October 2011 the new national minimum wage for qualifying workers aged 21 years and over will rise from £5.93 to £6.08. Many people may not be aware of the numerous exceptions to this standard but there are in fact seven different figures for minimum wages ranging from the rate for “young” workers (i.e…. Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
September 29th, 2011
