Safwan Afridi
Safwan is a solicitor in our employment team. Safwan qualified as a solicitor in 2018, having joined the firm as a trainee in 2016 and completed seats in our healthcare, commercial litigation, commercial property and tax and private client teams. Before joining the firm, Safwan obtained extensive High Court litigation experience at another City law firm.
Safwan specialises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law. He regularly litigates in the employment tribunal and civil courts in relation to a range of employment matters, including but not limited to ordinary and automatic unfair dismissals, constructive dismissals, wrongful dismissals, redundancies, discrimination, harassment, victimisation, whistleblowing and breach of contract. He is also experienced in drafting and negotiating employment contracts, disciplinary and grievance procedures and whistleblowing and equal opportunities policies.
Sejal Raja and Safwan Afridi will be running an employment law focussed workshop. Specifically, they will be covering the employment status considerations that individuals need to have when providing services as an independent contractor on their own account or via a limited company. The second half of the workshop will focus on what employers should and should not do when hiring an employee.
The workshop is specifically for individuals that provide services as a self-employed contractor and/or individuals that are looking to employee an individual for the first time.
Sejal Raja is a partner and head of the employment department at city law firm, RadcliffesLeBrasseur LLP. Sejal is an employment law expert with over 20 years’ experience advising employees and employers on all aspects of employment law. She frequently runs workshops and training sessions for her clients and is highly ranked in all legal publications. Her extensive experience of acting for both individuals and organisations uniquely places her in a position where she can provide valuable advice on the full spectrum of employment issues.
Safwan Afridi is a solicitor in the employment department at RadcliffesLeBrasseur LLP. He also advises individuals and organisations on all aspects of employment law. He acts for clients in number of different sectors and is regularly conducting litigation in the employment tribunal and civil courts. He also advises on non-contentious employment law issues on a daily basis.
This workshop will be suitable for individuals that carry out work as a self-employed contractor and want to take steps to ensure that their employment status does not leave them vulnerable to IR35 regulations or other tax liabilities. It will also be ideal for any individuals that run a small company or partnership and are looking to employ their first employee and or have recently done so. There will be a specific focus on the recruitment process and the steps to follow once the individual becomes an employee.
We would encourage delegates to send in any specific questions that they may have for our experts in advance of the workshop so that these queries can be covered by Sejal and Safwan.
