Anthony has more than 25 years’ experience advising both employers and employees. He is known for providing accessible, strategic, and business-focused advice, to organisations of all sizes as well as individuals facing workplace disputes.
Anthony’s practice encompasses a broad range of employment matters, including employee relations issues, fair and unfair dismissals, redundancy programmes, relocations, TUPE (including collective consultation requirements), executive termination packages, discrimination and harassment issues, and disciplinary and grievance processes. He regularly represents clients in employment disputes, including experience conducting advocacy before the Employment Tribunal and the Central Arbitration Committee. Anthony is also a trusted trainer for in-house HR and management teams.
Anthony ran his own specialist employment practice for 16 years before joining TWM.
Experience
Anthony has acted for both individual employees and employers of various sizes, including businesses without their own HR function and larger companies with specialist HR departments. His corporate clients have operated across many sectors, including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, specialist vehicle manufacturing, travel, publishing, education, and the drinks industry.
His work covers the main areas of employment law, including:
- Managing grievances, disciplinary, and capability matters (both sickness and performance)
- Advising management on employee relations issues and disputes
- Negotiating executive termination packages and settlement agreements
- Advising on TUPE in both outsourcing and acquisition contexts
- Planning and advising on reorganisations and redundancies, including large-scale redundancy exercises with collective consultation
- Advising on workplace relocations and providing practical support for projects such as pharmaceutical manufacturing sites, specialist vehicle factories, one of Europe’s largest bottling, warehousing and distribution sites, and company head offices
- Advising on and conducting claims including wrongful and unfair dismissal, discrimination, harassment, victimisation, whistleblowing, breach of contract, unlawful deduction from wages, and bonus entitlement
- Drafting employment contracts, handbooks, and similar documentation, including restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements
- Advising on industrial relations matters, including recognition requests, collective bargaining, and industrial action.
Anthony has extensive advocacy experience before the Employment Tribunal, including large and complex cases lasting a week or longer, and has also appeared before the Central Arbitration Committee, successfully defending an employer against a Trade Union seeking confidential management bonus information (Unite the Union v Constellation Europe Limited – Case Number DI/3(2007)).
In addition to casework, Anthony provides practical employment law training for businesses, designing participative workshops that equip managers, supervisors, and HR professionals with the skills to manage workplace issues effectively while remaining compliant with the law.
