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
Christmas parties: 10 practical tips
This year’s Christmas party arrives with a new legal backdrop: the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 (the Act), which introduced a proactive duty on employers to take ‘reasonable steps’ to prevent sexual harassment. What should you do? Before the party 1 Assess the risk The Act expects employers to anticipate where…
When one job is not enough: the cleaner who worked 17 hours a day
Imagine you run a facilities management team. One morning, you learn that one of your cleaners works full-time for you during the day, and full-time for someone else all night. You check the timesheets twice, then thrice, because no one can function effectively on so little rest, let alone while lugging Henry Hoover around at…
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Should managers stick to the script?
Most HR teams use scripts. They keep meetings on track, stop managers from rambling, and prevent someone from opening a disciplinary hearing with: ‘Is there any reason I shouldn’t sack you?’ But can a script go too far and turn a fair process into a predetermined one? The recent Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) judgment in…
HR1 goes digital
From Monday 1st December 2025, the HR1 form finally joins the 21st century. Paper and e-mail submissions will disappear, and employers proposing 20 or more redundancies at one establishment within 90 days must use the Insolvency Service’s new digital system. Failure to notify remains a criminal offence, so this upgrade is more than a tidy…
