RACHEL YORKE - SENIOR ASSOCIATE

Rachel is a Senior Associate in the Employment team.

Rachel is an experienced advisor, litigator and investigator. She also regularly provides training sessions to clients on a variety of topics including:

• equality and diversity;

• managing poor performance and misconduct issues;

• handling employee grievances;

• reducing and managing sickness absence. 

Clients include owner-managed businesses and household name businesses in a range of sectors, including retail, manufacturing, facilities management and hospitality.

Recent examples of how Rachel has supported clients include:

• carrying out an extensive investigation into a grievance brought by an employee who alleged wrongdoing on the part of the MD and CFO, and producing a detailed report, to include findings and commercial recommendations;

• conducting a number of investigations into allegations of discrimination and harassment, and producing detailed findings and recommendations;

• successfully representing a client in defending claims for unfair dismissal and discrimination, and obtaining a significant costs award for the client; and

• managing a large scale settlement agreement project which involved providing advice to 250+ employees.