When a ground-handling contract at Heathrow changes hands, hundreds of Hounslow households find out at once what TUPE means. Baggage, check-in, cleaning, catering and security work at the airport is contracted and re-contracted constantly, and each transfer raises the same questions: do the old terms survive, can the new employer change shift patterns, and what happens to someone whose role is not on the list. Employment solicitors in Hounslow answer those questions constantly, alongside the problems particular to airport work: an airside pass suspended after a security concern, which removes the job in all but name, rostering disputes, fatigue and sickness absence in a 24-hour operation, and dismissals under rules stricter than in any other industry.
The borough's other employers bring different cases. Redundancy rounds at the media, technology and pharmaceutical companies in Chiswick and on the Great West Road produce settlement agreements, which must be signed off by an independent adviser and are usually paid for in part by the employer. West Middlesex University Hospital and Hounslow Council generate whistleblowing, grievance and long-term sickness cases. Hotels, restaurants and agencies around Hounslow town and Feltham raise holiday pay, minimum wage and worker status claims.
An employment solicitor in Hounslow will check the deadline first: Acas early conciliation must start within three months less one day of the dismissal or act complained of. Claims are then allocated to one of the London tribunal offices by postcode. Employers in the borough use the same firms for contracts, handbooks and defending claims.
Expect a free or low-cost first assessment, fixed fees for settlement agreements and staged fees for a contested claim.
Employment firms serving Hounslow are listed below, verified ones first. The explainer on what employment law covers and the general employment law solicitors guide give the background; business law solicitors in Hounslow covers the employer's side, and the London employment page lists firms across the capital.
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