Fixed fee employment law advice

Overview of HR Rely

Why HR Rely?

A complete HR support solution

Commercially focused

Advice in alignment with your HR goals.

Experts

Specialised regulated advisors with sector expertise.

Sector specific

Tailored advice specific to your sector.

National reach

Part of a national law firm, giving in-depth employment support.

Advice you can trust

A dedicated client team working with you to achieve success.

How we can help your business?

Commercially focused

We can provide expert, practical support on a full range of workplace issues, through the complete employment life cycle.

About us

National reach with in-depth support

As part of a full-service law firm, we can support your business with wider specialised support whenever you need it. For example, HR Rely members can access targeted help with business immigration, health and safety, and pensions issues as competitively priced ‘bolt-on’ packages.

Pricing

Sector expertise

Using our sector expertise to provide pragmatic and strategic solutions, we work with you to elevate and to add real value to your business.

Sectors

What our clients say

Shazad Hussain Business and Operations Manager, Beacon Medical Services Group

We are delighted to be working with Weightmans and experience an exceptional level of service. They take time to understand the nature of our business and associated challenges and recommend workable solutions. Our assigned HR legal specialists are always available and are real experts in their fields. The support Weightmans has provided has been invaluable and has allowed us to develop as a business with the knowledge that we are following best practice. I have no hesitation in recommending Weightmans to other organisations as I know they will add real value.

Emma Wilcock Head of HR, Hexagon Care Services Ltd

Ian’s advice, professionalism and attentive approach has helped us successfully address issues to a satisfactory resolution. He provides clear, concise, and detailed responses presenting options, risk, and workaround to suit our organisation’s needs and is always available to provide support.

Matthew Scott People Director, White Stuff

We have been working with Weightmans for many years using their HR Rely service and have always felt it offered outstanding value and service, and all our day-to-day queries are handled effectively and quickly. It goes without saying that the legal advice we are given is always of excellent quality, and always pragmatic and commercially appropriate for a high street retailer. Additionally the scope of the service is very generous, so it is very rare that we have to go outside of the agreement to commission additional support. Every year at budget time we do our due diligence and look at the wider market to see if HR Rely can be bettered, but we always come back to it as the best value for us which is why we have stayed for so long.

Our expert team are here to help

Ian Pace

Ian acts for a wide range of private and public sector clients and advises on all areas of employment and discrimination law. He has considerable experience in acting for NHS Trusts and healthcare clients generally and also advises employers in the education, retail and insurance sectors. He has a particular interest in whistleblowing and all areas of discrimination, including disability and age.

Ian regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and provides bespoke in-house training on a range of employment and equality issues.

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Ingrid McGhee

Ingrid is very much a trusted and go-to legal advisor. She is a key member of the employment, pensions and immigration team at Weightmans, providing both employment law and business immigration law support and advice to clients.

Ingrid is pragmatic, personable and solutions-focused. She has significant experience in the legal profession and truly focusses on what her clients' needs and objectives are. She is also very driven in building long standing relationships with clients and continues to work across many sectors.

Employment

Ingrid covers all areas of non-contentious employment matters and has particular experience in redundancies, restructuring/reorganisation, senior executive/management disputes and employment/TUPE support to corporate and real estate transactions. She has significant sector experience within retail and hospitality, construction, transport and logistics and owner managed business/SMEs.

She conducts her own advocacy and manages tribunal claims ranging from areas of unfair dismissal, protected disclosures, disability discrimination, redundancy and re-organisations, sex discrimination, TUPE and wasted costs.

Ingrid is also a key member of Weightmans' HR Rely team – offering price certainty and employment law solutions for our clients.

Ingrid also has previous experience in legal sales and growth strategy, training and supervision of employment colleagues and the development of cross-selling opportunities

Business immigration

Ingrid is experienced in both employment law and immigration law, allowing for seamless advice across both disciplines.

Her immigration expertise extends to assisting with compliance, policy drafting and implementation and strategy and the prevention of illegal working. She also has experience in providing global immigration advice and support to a variety of sectors including retail, transport, hospitality, education and construction.

Recent business immigration work highlights

Advising higher education authority in respect of new points based system and assisting with policy implementation and strategy
Advising FTSE 100 company in respect of compliance duties and immigration/discrimination considerations within recruitment practices
Advising construction sector in respect of immigration rules and compliance
Supporting transport and logistical businesses with compliance and advising in respect of immigration rules and the prevention of illegal working
Advising further education authority in respect of sponsorship duties and application process