Emma Rae

Emma trained at an international law firm before relocating to Australia for a year, which means she is well versed in working on a wide range of employment matters throughout the UK, wider Europe and APAC. Emma regularly advises clients on sickness absence matters, performance issues, disciplinary and grievance proceedings, workforce restructuring and redundancies and harassment / discrimination in the workplace.

Emma has particular experience advising clients in the aviation, transport, oil & gas, finance and retail sectors. She is well versed in working for clients in both the public and private sector. Emma's clients frequently comment on her approachability and responsiveness, as well as her ability to provide advice which is focused, commercial and pragmatic.

Emma is a member of the Law Society of Scotland.

Jurisdiction: Scotland

• Advising an airline client on a large multi-jurisdictional redundancy and restructure process. 
• Defending a varied case load of Employment Tribunal cases for a public body client. Cases include breach of contract, unlawful deductions, discrimination, whistleblowing and constructive unfair dismissal claims. 
• Working alongside a regulatory team to provide FCA and SMCR employment advice to a financial services client ahead of FCA recognition. 
• Providing employment due diligence advice on an international joint venture transaction, which spanned throughout Europe and APAC. Specific advice included providing TUPE advice and co-ordinating local counsel advice on employee transfer mechanisms and the use of EOR models in other jurisdictions. 
• Advising and providing support on contentious employee exits. 
• Navigating complex pay queries from several clients, which include queries on holiday pay for term-time workers, wider pay queries for irregular hour employees and queries on applying the (then) new neonatal care leave provisions in practice. 
• Providing two pro-bono clients with advice on voluntary trade union recognition and de-recognition.