Ian Pettifer
Employment Services | Associate Partner
Experience
Ian joined Keelys in 2020. He has been a qualified solicitor for over 20 years, and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.
Practice Area
Ian specialises
in employment law and advises employers in many different sectors and
industries, from start-ups to multinational businesses, as well as public sector
and not for profit organisations. He
also advises employees, directors, groups of workers and their
representatives.
Ian advises and supports employers and employees through disciplinary action, grievances, performance issues, sickness absence, equal opportunities and discrimination, redundancies and restructuring, TUPE, data protection and regulatory law, and with settlement agreements. He often presents cases in Employment Tribunal hearings. Ian has also defended Nurses in professional conduct proceedings before the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Highlights
- Successfully defending a care business from claims including unfair dismissal which placed their good standing with the Care Quality Commission at risk.
- Advising several hundred employees of a large employer on settlement agreements during a series of factory closures.
- Presenting a test case to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, on the calculation of holiday entitlement for workers on variable hours.
- Coordinating a multinational redundancy programme for an IT company, to comply with the laws of several countries.
- Winning an injunction restraining former employees and directors of an insurance broker from taking and using confidential information to set up a rival business.
Qualifications
Solicitor
Reporting to
Head of Employment Services Department: Paul Roberts
Interests
Ian has been a committee member of local branches of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development for the last decade. He is a devoted husband and father of three sons, and enjoys camping, swimming, and watching rugby (but not playing, as he can’t catch the ball).