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Family friendly rights at work
We support your business on all aspects of family friendly rights at work, getting your policies right and helping you deal with complaints and grievances.
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Family friendly rights at work - full legal support and advice for businesses
Helping your business meet obligations to employees
If you don’t have proper, up-to-date policies and procedures for supporting family friendly rights at work, your business could be a risk from costly legal claims. It’s vital that you are aware of your obligations to your employees. Tees provides guidance on every aspect of family friendly rights at work, helping you ensure your policies are up to date with legal requirements so that any requests or issues are handled correctly. Good well-managed policies help you retain valuable staff.
Handling complaints – expert employment lawyers on your side
Family friendly rights at work disputes are often over sensitive issues, such as returning from maternity leave, or rights for carers. Our Ideally, your legal advisers should help you achieve outcomes before action arises, but in cases where this doesn’t happen, you can rely on Tees for full legal support and guidance.
"Sound, practical advice given in clear terms and tailored to the client's needs. Approachable and easy to work with." Legal 500 2026
Our experience – cross sector legal expertise
Our employment law team has considerable experience advising a range of businesses, of all sizes and across many sectors on family friendly working. We have the practical experience to support your business on any issue relating to this. Typically, we help clients meet obligations to working parents and carers, and manage and respond to requests for flexible working. We also provide scripts and template letters for you to use.
Support with family-friendly rights at work
Our family friendly rights at work solicitors cover issues which include:
- Maternity leave
- Paternity leave
- Parental leave, including shared parental leave
- Flexible working rights (including applications and how to manage these)
- Carers’ rights
- Homeworking
Legal and financial advice under one roof
Tees is a top-tier Legal 500 firm offering joined-up legal and financial services. We have our own independent financial advisers (IFAs), who work closely with our lawyers.
Our advisers provide holistic financial planning and as we are not connected to any one provider, we can offer a whole-of-market approach for the range of products we can advise on. We can also give independent advice for a whole range of insurance products to protect you and your family. Our IFAs are regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, which means we’re accountable for the advice we give.
Get in touch today, we’re here to help
Managing family-friendly rights in the workplace can be complex. Our employment lawyers provide clear, practical advice to help you understand your legal obligations and manage requests for maternity, paternity, parental leave, flexible working and other family-friendly arrangements with confidence.
We have offices across Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, but we can help you wherever you are in England and Wales.
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“The employment team works very well together. You invariably have at least two or three solicitors focused on your case, which means you benefit from multiple perspectives on any given problem.”
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