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Band 3

Employment

North East

3 Years Ranked

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Provided by Neil Guss

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Employment law specialist Neil is based at Thompsons Solicitors’ Newcastle office and covers cases across the North East of England.

Utilising an extensive knowledge base and a range of skills, Neil supervises both the North East region’s employment rights team and the equal pay team, which handles mass equal pay litigation against a number of local authorities in the North of England.

Additionally, Neil is the main point of contact for a telephone advice line that provides legal advice on employment law to trade union officials. Neil also issues advice to self-employed commercial agents regarding disputes with their principals.

Career

Neil has been a solicitor for more than a decade, dealing with industrial disease litigation, contractual issues and other employment law matters.

Personal

For Neil, working with trade unions on behalf of members who have been poorly treated in the workplace and trying to resolve the employment issues of those members industrially, though negotiation, litigation or a combination of all three, is the best part of the job.

Neil is proud of Thompsons’ commitment to campaigning for working people’s rights and the firm’s involvement in a number of claims that that have contributed significantly to the development of laws supporting those who have been mistreated or injured at work.

Outside of work, Neil’s main interests are photography, football and going to the cinema.

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Employment - North East
3
Band 3

Neil Guss of Thompsons has a wide-ranging employment law practice which sees him advise clients on an individual and collective basis on employment rights. He advises on TUPE regulations, as well as on mass equal pay litigation. He also provides legal advice totrade unionofficials.

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