Employment Law for Transport Businesses
Expert employment law advice for the transport sector
Maintaining a good working relationship with your employees is vital to the success of any transport business. When employment law issues do arise, these need to be handled quickly and professionally.
Being a full-service law firm, our Employment Law team are on hand to advise you, and we have extensive experience in the road transport sectors.

Employment law for transport services
Our experienced transport-sector employment team can advise on any employment law matter affecting your business:
- We quickly resolve employee disputes (whether with professional drivers, transport managers or other staff members)
- At all times we will consider how any course of action could affect your operator’s licence responsibilities
- We can advise on issues arising from self-employed drivers, subcontracting arrangements and TUPE
- Our team can help you to draft employee handbooks and contracts of employment
- We can advise on disciplinary proceedings arising from employee misconduct or drivers hours’ infringements
- Restructuring and redundancy advice
- Drafting employment contracts, policies and procedures
- Advising on employee management and HR
- Defending employment tribunal claims and advising on settlement agreements and dispute resolution
- Long-term sickness absence advice
- Advice on working time regulations as they apply to mobile workers
- Managing instances of whistleblowing
We take a pragmatic and forward-thinking approach with a focus on reducing risk to your business.
Find out more about our Employment Law for Employers services at the link below.

Our Transport and Employment departments work together closely to give you the best-possible advice and legal representation.








