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Helen Donnelly is a Senior Associate in the Employment and Pensions Team. She is a commercially focused adviser on a wide range of day to day HR issues including disciplinary and grievance processes, whistleblowing, TUPE transfers, collective consultation, discrimination issues and employee relations.
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+44 131 524 2410 helen.donnelly@clydeco.comMain Offices
Edinburgh, Albany House
+44 (0) 131 557 1545 +44 (0) 131 525 8651Manchester, 2 New Bailey
+44 161 236 2002 +44 (0) 20 7876 5111Regional experience
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Helen Donnelly is a Senior Associate in the Manchester and Glasgow Employment and Pensions Team. Helen has extensive experience of providing comprehensive advice, guidance and support to a wide range of clients from a variety of sectors including third sector educational and charitable establishments, public sector bodies, government departments and non-departmental government organisations, insurers, financial services industry organisations, Trades Unions and private sector businesses employing up to 25,000 people.
Since 2011, Helen has gained experience in providing representation, advice and advocacy services in the Scottish and English Tribunals including advocating for a large employment agency in a 10 day hearing for a race discrimination claim in the Birmingham Employment Tribunal.
Helen has developed a specialism in high level exits and is experienced at negotiating and achieving agreement in matters concerning sensitive issues and complex contract and benefit arrangements.
Helen is a knowledgeable and commercially focused adviser on a wide range of day to day HR issues including disciplinary and grievance processes, whistleblowing, TUPE transfers, collective consultation, discrimination issues and employee relations.
Helen frequently takes part in writing and delivering training sessions to a variety of clients, writing articles for websites and newspapers and has produced content for podcasts on employment law developments.
Beyond her day to day work she provides pro-bono advice via Citizens Advice and supports more junior lawyers through her supervisory and mentoring work.
Experience
- Sensitive high level exit of Director with long service
- Employment Tribunal Advocacy
- Employment Tribunal litigation in matters of unfair dismissal, discrimination, victimisation, whistleblowing and redundancy
- Advising on complex new legislation regarding indirect discrimination by association
- Auditing of employer policy and procedure documentation
- Writing and delivering training on sexual harassment and case law updates
(C)LLB Accelerated and Diploma in Legal Practice - also MA Anthroplogy and BA Hons Social Anthropology and Minor Combined