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Julie Young

Senior Associate

Julie is a Senior Associate in the Human Resources practice group experienced in employment and labor law.

She is experienced in advising clients on all aspects of contentious and noncontentious employment law matters and regularly advises in relation to complex disciplinary and grievance issues, as well as defending high-value discrimination and whistleblowing Tribunal claims.

Julie is a trusted adviser to a number of key clients within the diversified industrials, life sciences, transport and consumer sectors, and she provides strategic advice to clients in relation to large-scale business reorganizations, changing terms and conditions, trade union disputes, TUPE transfers, executive severances, and collective redundancies. Julie takes a particular interest in discrimination issues and has developed a speciality in this area. 

Julie’s experience includes:

  • providing technical and practical guidance to clients in a range of sectors in respect of the new private sector IR35 legislation
  • providing strategic advice to a national airline in relation to negotiations with BALPA, the pilot’s union, to achieve the settlement of over 700 pilot holiday pay claims
  • acting for a FTSE 100 company in relation to a high-value unfair dismissal/whistleblowing Employment Tribunal claim involving a three-week Tribunal hearing
  • advising a multinational pharmaceutical company in relation to its holiday pay strategy across the UK and the settlement over 100 holiday pay claims
  • advising a FTSE 100 client throughout a highly sensitive whistleblowing and discrimination grievance and subsequent Employment Tribunal claim with a value of circa £400,000
  • providing strategic advice to a diversified industrials client regarding a union recognition issue and successful settlement of a failure to consult Employment Tribunal claim
  • advising a multinational diversified industrials sector client in relation to the negotiation of a collective agreement with Unite the Union
Julie Young

Senior Associate

Julie Young

Senior Associate

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