Pip Galland
Senior Associate
“Exceptional: highly forensic, tenacious and hardworking”
Legal 500 UK 2023
About
Pip is a Senior Associate in the Employment team. She advises employers and employees in the public, private and third sectors on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters, covering the life cycle of the employment relationship, as well as on corporate/commercial transactions.
In her spare time, Pip chairs the Board of Trustees of Bath Mind (a local mental health charity affiliated with National Mind) and she sits on various National Mind Mental Health Committees.
Pip regularly provides training and speaks at events across the UK on a range of employment law matters, including mental health and equality, diversity and inclusion.
Experience
- EQUANS: Two secondments totalling 15 months as senior in house counsel, negotiating TUPE provisions, advising on complex ER complaints, large scale restructures, redundancies and trade union issues. Pip sat on the executive HR leadership committee.
- RHS: Advising the RHS on a wide range of employment issues, including complex grievances, whistleblowing and discrimination claims, and providing strategic advice to the People Director and Senior Leadership Teams.
- Babcock: Providing regular HR advice, including in relation to disciplinary matters and dismissals and drafting documentation for negotiated exits and settlements
- BAE Systems: Managing complex employment tribunal claims, including a multiparty class action TUPE outsourcing claim and complex discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal claims.
- Providing HR and line manager training on mental health and discrimination.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2015)
- Chair of Trustees – Bath Mind
- National Mind Committee Member
Areas of expertise
- Business immigration and global mobility
- Data protection, pay and compliance
- Employment
- Employment advisory
- Employment disputes and tribunal litigation
- Equality, diversity and discrimination
- Outsourcing, M&A and TUPE
- Restructuring, redundancy, and workplace change
- Trade unions and worker voice
- Workplace investigations & whistleblowing
Sector focus
Office
Latest thinking from Pip
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Thought leadership
Time to Talk Day 2024: how can employers walk the talk on mental health?
1 February 2024
Thought leadership
How can employers support their people following World Mental Health Day?
11 October 2022
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