Eversheds International

Local Government

Human resources

Local authorities, like all other employers, are heavily dependent upon a committed and effective workforce. You need to balance the need to achieve efficient service delivery with the broad range of legal and other obligations to staff.

Our team (recognised as the leader in the UK) has significant public sector expertise. We focus on the need to identify and deliver effective solutions which take account of legal obligations together with the evolving commercial and industrial relations realities of a situation. Areas we cover include the Equal Pay Agenda, pensions, performance management, discrimination, tribunals, investigations, education and general project support. In addition to our legal advice and HR consultancy support, we also provide a range of value added services that support local authorities and their in-house teams, including specialist training, fixed cost products (such as our web-based respect @ work training tool) and seminars on hot topics.

We work in partnership with Chief Executives, Chief Officers and others who have ultimate responsibility for resolving staff related issues to achieve creative solutions.