Kate Wyatt
Partner
Employment
Phone
01382 317182
Address
Caledonian Exchange 19A Canning Street Edinburgh EH3 8HE
About Kate
Kate is a Partner based in our Edinburgh and Dundee offices. She has specialised in employment law since qualification and advises employers and individuals on a wide range of employment matters.
Kate has worked with employer and employee clients from a variety of sectors, including the sporting, social care, higher education, independent schools and life sciences sectors, and for charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Kate has experience of bringing and defending employment tribunal claims, including discrimination claims, unfair dismissal and equal pay claims, and provides her employer clients with advice in relation to disciplinary and grievance matters, capability and conduct dismissals, redundancies and restructurings along with contract issues. She has also advised on the application of the TUPE regulations, employee issues in outsourcing contracts, trade union recognition and strike action.
Kate also advises senior employees, including in relation to negotiating contracts of employment and settlement agreements, and on post termination restrictions.
Kate is a member
of ELA (Employment Lawyers Association) and holds a Masters degree in
employment law. She is a trustee director of Dundee CAB.
Kate has earned recognition as a Law Society of Scotland Certified Specialist and obtaining a certificate (Data Protection (GDPR) Practitioner Certificate) awarded by TQUK.
Expertise
Highlights
- Advising an employer in the care sector on alleged breaches of collective bargaining arrangements and subsequent strike action.
- Acting in a complex employment status case centering on whether an individual was self-employed or an employee, and therefore entitled to a redundancy package.
- Representing an employer in defending claims of discrimination and harassment on the grounds of religion or belief under the Equality Act.
- Drafting full suites of policies and procedures for employer clients including whistle-blowing and equality policies.
- Representing a claimant in a claim of unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief.
- Acting for a group of employees in complex settlement agreements involving third party outsourcing contracts.
