Christina Merrington
Direct Tel: 01733 302414
Mobile:
07850 501301
Email:
christina.merrington@spw-law.co.uk
As our Senior Associate Solicitor for Employment Law, Christina has over a decade of experience in this field, advising across a full range of employment law matters to include:
- Employment contracts and service agreements
- Absence and performance management
- Disciplinary and grievance procedures
- Company handbooks and policies
- Compromise agreements
- Unfair and wrongful dismissal
- Breach of contract
- Discrimination with a particular strength in disability
- Social media issues within the workplace
- Restrictive covenants and confidentiality
- Working Time Regulations
- Maternity and other family friendly rights
- Redundancy and restructuring
- Transfer of Undertakings to include outsourcing (TUPE)
- Employment Tribunal claims
- Appointment and termination of senior employees’ contracts
- Some corporate immigration matters
Christina specialises in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law and has a particular experience in social media issues in the workplace, senior executive terminations and discrimination.
Christina joined Sloan Plumb Wood in January 2012 from Buckles Solicitors in Peterborough, where she was a Senior Associate Solicitor and former head of the Employment Law Department.
She is a regular presenter at seminars – both self-hosted and jointly hosted – with chosen local businesses and has also been a regular guest presenter and trainer for the CIPD group in Peterborough, guest presenter at the Corby Business Group and for the Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Society of Chartered Accountants (LANSCA) in both Peterborough and Leicester. Christina has also presented at a national conference for the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in Manchester.
Christina’s commenced her legal career in 1990 as a paralegal, qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in 1998 and as a solicitor in 2003. Christina has also been the subject of reviews in Chambers and the Legal 500.
