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Abbie Harley

Senior Associate

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Abbie Harley

Senior Associate

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Saltire Court
20 Castle Terrace
Edinburgh
EH1 2EN
United Kingdom
Languages English

Abbie is a Senior Associate in the employment team.

Abbie primarily acts for employers and has worked with clients across a wide range of sectors, including completing secondments to a FTSE 100 financial services firm and a leading energy company.

Abbie advises clients on complex employee relations issues, such as disciplinary processes, performance management, grievances and absence management. She also advises employers on industrial relations issues.

Abbie is experienced in drafting, reviewing and negotiating service agreements, consultancy agreements and settlement agreements. She regularly advises on the employment aspects of corporate transactions, including the implications of TUPE.

Abbie regularly represents clients in Employment Tribunal proceedings, including in relation to complaints of equal pay and discrimination.

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Education

  • 2010 - LLB (Hons), The University of Glasgow, Glasgow
  • 2011 - Diploma in Legal Practice, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
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Expertise

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10/11/2022
People considerations in Financial Services Transactions
Watch On Demand Transactions, whether M&A, outsourcing or insourcing, are a core part of many of our clients’ businesses;  however, while the key commercial heads of terms are generally hammered out...
Event Webinar
07/09/2021
Gender pay: What’s needed to make equality a reality?
A CMS Webinar on Tuesday 21 September will explore what society and businesses need to do to close the ongoing disparity in men and women’s pay. Did you know that 18 September 2021 is UN Equal Pay Day...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
01/07/2021
Dismissals 101 - Redundancy
The CMS Employment team is delighted to invite you to join us for the next instalment in our “Lunchtime Learning” series - Dismissals 101.  In this series of four half an hour “bitesize” webinars...
Event Webinar
22/06/2021
Domestic abuse: is it your business?
It is a sad fact of life that domestic abuse remains widespread in UK society, with an estimated 2.3 million adults (of whom 1.6 million were women) in England and Wales experiencing domestic abuse in...
Event Webinar
11/06/2021
How can businesses protect their trade secrets in a hybrid working world?
As the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 steadily increases, many employers are starting to turn their minds to a return to the workplace. However, it’s unlikely that we will be returning...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
09/04/2021
Post-employment notice pay - two changes this week that may require employers...
Further changes to the application of the post-employment notice pay (“PENP”) rules were introduced on 6 April 2021. Recap of current position By way of reminder, in April 2018, HMRC removed the distinction...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
17/02/2021
How can employers take action to support employees affected by domestic...
The prevalence of domestic abuse An estimated 2.3 million adults aged 16 to 74 experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2020 in England and Wales.[1] Whilst both men and women experience domestic...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
04/08/2020
What can employers do to address the impact of COVID-19 and the “new normal”...
In our previous Law-Nows in this series, we looked at the importance of diversity and inclusion in a recession and how employers can protect their BAME employees. In this article we focus on the potential...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
31/01/2020
Termination Payments: two changes to be aware of!
Employers should take note of recent and forthcoming changes relating to the taxation of termination payments. As an overview, in April 2020 employers will be required to pay employer national insurance...
Law-Now Tax
06/02/2019
Government consultation launched on extending redundancy protection for...
The Government is consulting on extending the protection currently afforded to employees selected for redundancy who are on statutory maternity leave to those who (i) are pregnant (ii) are on family leave...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
26/09/2018
Parents to be entitled to two weeks’ bereavement leave following the death...
The Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Bill received Royal Assent earlier this month becoming the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 (the “Act”). Under the Act, employees will be entitled...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
21/04/2016
Closing the gap – is gender pay reporting the way forward?
After much speculation, the Government published Draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016 (the Draft Regulations) in February 2016. The Draft Regulations provide that, by...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
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