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I am a specialist employment lawyer with over 25 years' experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. I have particularly expertise in TUPE transfers, restructuring and redundancies, complex employment litigation, discrimination/equality issues and senior staff exits. I act for clients across a wide range of sectors including major corporate employers, housing associations, education bodies and charities and am the Firm’s lead on providing employment advice to local authorities.
My general experience includes all areas of employment work and I have dealt with a number of high profile cases in Tribunals, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. I have specific expertise in advising on equal pay and discrimination, restructuring and redundancy programmes, negotiated exits, changing terms and conditions, and providing TUPE advice in connection with service delivery models including shared services, partnering arrangements, joint ventures and outsourcing. I also provide support to in-house legal and HR teams, acting as a sounding board on both strategic and operational HR issues.
Her knowledge and interpretation of employment law along with her professionalism, support and helpfulness is always first class.
Publications
I have had articles published in the Local Government Lawyer and Local Government Chronicle and have also contributed articles to Lexology and EM LawShare
Shining a light on wrongdoing at work
Councils must be prepared for Statutory Officer disciplinary investigations
Seminars
I have spoken at the LLG Weekend School on employment matters.
Sarah has been a fantastic support during a very complex and challenging project and she always provides timely and practical advice.
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Employment Law Update: Case law and horizon scanning for HR and...
06/12/2022
Taking a look at some of the hot employment and workforce topics of 2022 and looking forward at what 2023 has in store
Bevan Brittan team helps major merger of housing association duo to...
01/04/2022
Catalyst and Peabody complete merger
Employment Law Update: June
30/06/2021
This is the perfect opportunity to hear about updates in employment law and to get an update on the latest changes
Councils must be prepared for Statutory Officer disciplinary...
21/06/2019
The MJ - article published 20 June 2019
Shining a light on wrongdoing at work
14/05/2019
Employment Status Update
13/06/2018
Supermarket sweep - important developments in equal pay
26/10/2016
Are collective equal pay claims a step closer for private sector employers?
Brexit – the implications for employment law
28/06/2016
On 23 June, the UK voted to leave the European Union. A very different future is emerging for politics, finance and governance in...
Employment Eye - News Round-Up May 2016
26/05/2016
Sarah Lamont on the latest employment law news in brief - plus details of our next events.
Public sector exit payments – clamping down & clawing back
25/02/2016
Sarah Lamont shines a light on the recent raft of complex proposals designed to clamp down on public sector exit payments
Employment Eye - Travel to work can be 'work'
30/09/2015
Sarah Lamont follows up on our recent Alert on Tyco Integrated Services, and resolves some of the potential confusion over the...
TUPE news
30/06/2015
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations are a reliable source of somewhat surprising judicial...
TUPE service provision change involving a group of clients
31/03/2015
The concept of a ‘service provision change’ has been examined a number of times in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT).
Holiday and overtime payments
27/11/2014
In a landmark decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal decided earlier this month that holiday pay should include...
Employment Eye – Alert! Calculation of holiday pay
04/11/2014
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has today handed down its decision in the joined cases of Fulton v Bear Scotland Limited and...
Employment Eye – Alert! Holiday pay & overtime – follow up
04/11/2014
Further to our earlier Alert, the full judgment of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in the important holiday pay / overtime...
TUPE update
25/09/2014
Whilst some of us may have been taking some time out and relaxing over the summer holidays, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has...
Mum's NOT the word: flexible working extended
01/07/2014
Anyone who believes that flexible working is largely limited to working mothers will have their thinking challenged this week, as...
Employment news round-up
28/01/2014
Despite the gloomy time of year, there are at least three reasons to be cheerful today: 'Blue Monday' (20 January) is out of the...
TUPE Regulations officially 'static'
31/07/2013
As we reported in our recent Alert, the European Court of Justice has published its long awaited decision on whether the TUPE...
Employment Eye Alert: Is TUPE 'static' or 'dynamic'?
18/07/2013
Employment Eye Alert: Is TUPE 'static' or 'dynamic'?
Employment Eye Alert: Collective redundancy consultation – major...
04/06/2013
In what looks very likely to be a significant change to the rules on collective redundancy consultation, it has been reported that...
Sacking the DIP - Shooting the messenger?
28/02/2013
DCLG has written to a limited number of stakeholders seeking their views on draft Amendment Regulations that remove the...
Employment Eye
19/12/2012
Welcome to ourDecember 2012edition of Employment Eye withthe latest onemployment law developments. In this issue we cover the...
The law of unintended consequences: TUPE service provision changes
19/12/2012
What happens if an outsourced contract expires and is brought back in-house to be run as a skeleton service, pending a new...
Employment Eye: News round up
31/10/2012
This ‘Halloween edition’ of our employment news bulletin is all treat and no tricks, as Mike Smith explains October’s key...
TUPE: Discord over harmonisation
01/10/2012
A recent decision of the EAT potentially leaves employers with little wriggle room in relation to ETO reasons for TUPE related...
News round-up March 2012
29/03/2012
In this issue we consider: collective redundancies; key changes resultant from amendments to the Employment Tribunal Regulations;...
Redundancy Pool Decisions
29/03/2012
With financial pressures still dominating the news headlines and organisations having to make substantial savings, redundancies...
TUPE update
29/03/2012
Sarah Lamont discusses two recent decisions arising out of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations...
Change is most certainly afoot in the employment law world
30/11/2011
In recent months there have been a notable number of announcements and emphatic speeches from the prime minister and his...
Employment news round-up
03/10/2011
Sarah Lamont reports on the latest employment news: the arrival of the Agency Workers Regulations; Employment Tribunal Statistics...
Passive tense: when inaction makes things worse
29/06/2011
Passive tense: when inaction makes things worse
Dealing with strike action: a practical guide for employers
23/06/2011
Dealing with strike action: a practical guide for employers
Mothers in law
27/04/2011
Mothers are, as we all know, special. And the law acknowledges them as such, in that it allows employers to afford ‘special...
Local Authority Two Tier Code to be withdrawn
23/03/2011
Local Authority Two Tier Code to be withdrawn
Fair Deal pension guidance
03/03/2011
Following on from the commitment made in the Spending Review 2010 and the recommendations of Lord Hutton in the interim report...
Repeal of the DRA – important change to regulations
02/03/2011
The default retirement age (DRA) is due to be abolished next month. The government has today published new regulations on the...
Bevan Brittan’s crystal ball: employment law in 2011
26/01/2011
This year is set to be as helter skelter as ever in terms of employment law developments.Sarah Lamont dusts off her crystal ball...
Scope of TUPE extended?
29/11/2010
Sarah Lamont reports on a decision which causes for pause for thought for any organisation which has in place arrangements for...
Age discrimination and retirement ages
26/10/2010
The default retirement age is being put out to pasture next October and, once it goes, employers will have to objectively justify...
Harassment: an update and a look to the future
31/03/2010
The Courts and Tribunals have been busy in recent weeks, finessing the law in relation to harassment, and employers will be...
Court of Appeal Reverses EAT Decision
24/02/2010
In March 2009 we reported on a case where the Employment Appeal Tribunal allowed the transferral of benefits for employees who had...
Who is an “affected employee” for the purposes of TUPE?
19/01/2010
The recent case of Unison v Somerset County Council (1) Taunton Deane Borough Council (2) and South West One Ltd (3) has provided...
HR Workforce Transformation - Legal Challenges and Opportunities for...
21/12/2009
The current intense financial pressures mean that public authorities are looking at what can be done to fundamentally reconfigure...
Age Discrimination: Further cases on objective justification
21/10/2009
Two recently published age discrimination cases have provided some, if not total, clarity on the issue of justification in age...
Court of Appeal hand down judgment in Gutridge v Sodexo
14/07/2009
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its decision in the case of Gutridge & Others v Sodexo & Others which deals with...
Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird - Lessons learned
17/06/2009
The recent decision of Cheltenham Borough Council v Laird must be one of the messiest local government bun fights to pass through...
House of Lords decision in Stringer and Others v Her Majesty’s Revenue...
10/06/2009
As we enter into the balmy days of summer, andindeed theholiday season, the House of Lords has finally delivered its decision in...
Alert : Retention of Employment Model - changes after 1 July 2009
05/06/2009
The use of the Retention of Employment (ROE) Model will be greatly restricted from 1 July 2009. This could have significant...
Stress – react and assist or pay up!
14/05/2009
In the recent unreported, but widely covered in the press, case of Connor v Surrey County Council the High Court provided a timely...
Swine flu: contingency planning now may save your bacon
14/05/2009
There has been much in the press over recent weeks about the new swine influenza strain, known as influenza A(H1N1) and the...
Employment Alert: EAT hand down decision in Potter v North Cumbria...
24/04/2009
Under equal pay legislation workers must bring a claim within 6 months (or 9 months with the aid of a grievance) from termination...
Remember the Alemo ? Transfer of undertakings update – some key...
02/03/2009
Two recent cases on the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) have significant ramifications...
Redundancy – difficult issues
17/10/2008
Any business going through a redundancy process is unlikely to find it an easy or pleasant experience, but how should you deal...
We have worked with Sarah Lamont on a number of issues this year, and she has very quickly built trust and demonstrated her capability and credibility. It feels like a partnership, which is very reassuring. She is pragmatic and provides confidence when dealing with complex and contentious issues. Sarah quickly understands the issue in hand, our needs/focus, and works with us to find a solution that best works. Sarah is honest with her advice and the risk of potential strategies, ensuring we are well-informed and able to take decisions.