Carla is an associate solicitor in the charity and social business team. She assists charities, social businesses and other third sector organisations with all aspects of employment law, HR and data protection matters including:
- recruitment, employee status, self-employment and IR35
- drafting and reviewing staff handbooks, policies and procedures
- employment contracts, consultancy agreements, restrictive covenants and volunteer agreements
- flexible working and family rights including maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- gender pay reporting, data protection, workplace monitoring and health and safety
- lawful collection and processing of data under the Data Protection Act and preparations for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- performance and absence management
- staff disputes, disciplinary and grievance processes
- complaints of discrimination, victimisation, harassment, bullying and whistleblowing
- organisational change, restructures, mergers, redundancies, and the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE)
- termination including unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, breach of contract and settlement agreements
- defending employment tribunal claims, ACAS (COT3) settlement and mediation
Carla also advises charities on business immigration matters including:
- licencing as a Tier 2 and 5 sponsor
- ongoing compliance with UK immigration law and sponsor duties
- Tier 2 skilled worker visas (general and intra-company transfer categories) including conducting a Resident Labour Market Test
- Tier 5 visas (including voluntary workers, religious workers and youth mobility visas)
- training for charities on compliance procedures including record keeping and employee monitoring processes
- immigration aspects of charity mergers and acquisitions
Carla is Scots law qualified and trained at a leading Scottish firm. She qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and joined Russell-Cooke in 2017.
