Experts
IN EMPLOYMENT LAW FOR OVER 50 YEARS
Our story
We believe employment law and HR should go hand in hand. Our employment lawyers are highly experienced and offer commercially minded service as well as operationally aware advice. They combine their expertise in both fields to provide innovative people management.
We add value by getting to know how your business works, what your priorities are and how much support your business needs. The way we offer employment law support provides you with a real choice, the ability to control costs and to get exceptional results. All our fees are transparent.
We work in partnership with you to help your business succeed. We remove the complexities of employment law, add skills and confidence to your team, and allow you to concentrate on simply running your business.
Wherever you are, we can support you. Our clients range from small businesses to national multi-site operations and large companies with an international presence. We practise law throughout the UK. We advise clients in the Republic of Ireland and we can call on employment specialists in other countries.
What we do
We offer a range of services to suit the needs of your business.
From the start, we appoint a lead consultant to work directly with you and help you to create an employment law service package that fits your needs – whether that is a simple telephone call, face-to-face meetings, training or drafting the documents you need.
CASE STUDIES
Aligning job evaluation and pay bands “We have built up a strong working relationship with Watershed over many years and always receive sound advice and guidance on job evaluation, pay and grading matters.” Audit Scotland supports the Auditor General and the Accounts Commission with financial and performance auditing to ensure that Scotland’s public funds are…
Employment law support Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services is a long-standing Watershed client. It helps its customers to provide high-quality inspections and repairs, term maintenance or new build capital projects by supplying a broad range of products and services. These include scaffolding, insulation, cladding, coating, labour, project management, and safety systems. It employs approximately 2,500…
Support on reward Watershed has provided support on employment law and managing people to Benchmark Sport since 2019. Benchmark Sport is the holding company for a global network of brands and businesses that develop sport-related networks in the business and social sectors. These brands include Think Beyond, Beyond Sport, SIG, NSE and TrybWorld. In February…
Recent News
When AI writes the grievance: a new challenge for Human Resources
Picture this: a 2,000-word grievance lands in your inbox, bristling with legal phrases and suspiciously polished grammar. Your employee has just discovered artificial intelligence (AI). In all sectors, managers are increasingly seeing grievances that resemble tribunal pleadings more than workplace complaints. AI tools can draft articulate, emotionally neutral documents in minutes. That can make genuine…
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The Great Return: should you push people back to the office?
The office is not dead, but forcing people back may kill your culture faster than you think. The post-pandemic consensus is fraying. Some leaders swear by the productivity and culture of in-person work; others quietly admit that the commute, cost, and childcare maths no longer add up. UK data backs the mixed picture. Figures from…
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When ‘banter’ is not funny
How far can ‘banter’ go before it becomes harassment and can an employer really name their business something guaranteed to feature in tribunal headlines? What happened? The case of Ms S Sinclair v More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish Ltd and Mr Soliman (ET Glasgow, 7 August 2025) almost reads like satire. The company’s name,…
Tribunal fees: not coming back any time soon
On 9th October 2025, Lord Chancellor David Lammy confirmed the Government will not revive employment tribunal (ET) fees. A decision that speaks volumes about access to justice and budgets alike. In 2017 the Supreme Court killed off ET fees for breaching the right of access to justice. Since then, several governments have flirted with the…
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