Carla is a senior associate 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 becoming a senior associate in 2019.
