A calm, pragmatic and sensible approach to employment matters covering all bases. Knowledgeable and supportive and his attention to detail and ability to respond quickly is excellent.
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Kenny provides pragmatic and commercial advice on the full spectrum of employment law and HR matters to local and national employers across a wide range of sectors. He has extensive experience in advising on organisational change, TUPE, disciplinary and grievance matters, whistleblowing, data protection and the employment aspects of insolvency situations.
Kenny also regularly advises senior executives and individuals on settlement agreements, restrictive covenants and bringing employment tribunal claims. He regularly appears in the Employment Tribunals where he has accumulated an enviable track record of success.
Kenny is accredited as a specialist in Employment Law by The Law Society of Scotland. He frequently devises and provides training to senior management, HR personnel and employees and is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association.
He is also ranked as an Associate to Watch in Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession 2023.
We look at an unusual but important case on remedies and the application of the statutory cap, which made its way to the Employment Appeal Tribunal on not one but two occasions and resulted, on one view, in a particularly harsh outcome for the losing employer.
Questions of employment status continue to be front and central in the post-pandemic (for now at least) labour market.
On 1 February 2022, a further landmark holiday pay case was decided by the Court of Appeal, in Smith v Pimlico Plumbers Ltd.
