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 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
- performance and absence management
- gender pay reporting, workplace monitoring and health and safety
- 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 data protection matters including:
- lawful collection and processing of data
- data protection aspects of contracts with third-party suppliers and data sharing agreements
- drafting and reviewing privacy notices, data protection policies and records of data processing activities
- data protection impact assessments
- data breaches and making reports to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- subject access requests, requests for erasure and other individual requests
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.
