Position:
Partner, Head of Employment
Specialist Area:
Employee benefits, Employment law, Employment law training, HR Professional Club, Injury litigation, Retail, Sports law
Office:
London
Phone:
020 7293 4620
Email:
csyder@dac.co.uk
Chris is an employment law specialist. As well as being an experienced tribunal advocate, Chris is a regular speaker at legal training events. He advises a broad range of clients on domestic employment matters such as the transfer or takeover of businesses, contracts of employment and employment policies, restrictive covenants, employee representation, dismissals, redundancies and discrimination. He has a particular expertise assisting sports organisations with compliance issues and terminations.
Increasingly his work involves an international dynamic. In addition to managing or co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional projects, Chris is one of the CBI’s UK Employer Representatives at the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) annual conference. For the last three years he has sat on the Application of Labour Standards Committee, which examines the progress made by member countries following ratification of ILO conventions. This year, he will be sitting on the ILO's tri-partite Committee examining the ILO's ability to assist its members' efforts to reach its labour objectives in the context of globalisation.
Chris is also member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA), European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) and the Industrial Law Society.
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