Rachel Dineley, Partner

Email:	rdineley@beachcroft.co.uk
Location:	London Fetter Lane
Tel:	+44 (0)20 7242 1011

Rachel is based in London and leads the Employment Group’s national diversity and discrimination unit. She undertakes a variety of work for a wide range of employers (including major multinationals and partnerships). She has particular experience of working with clients in the financial services sector, professional services , property and retail, technology and manufacturing.

Her work ranges from strategic advice on contracts, policies and procedures; incentives and rewards and management of sensitive issues such as whistleblowing through to handling discrimination and stress-related claims; data protection; the negotiation of termination packages; dismissal; protection of confidential information and restrictive covenants; employee fraud; breach of duty; directors and shareholders’ disputes; consultation issues; the transfer of undertakings; redundancies and employment aspects of corporate re-structuring and employment related risk management.

Rachel regularly speaks and writes on employment law, especially on discrimination issues in which she has developed particular expertise (most recently, age discrimination, in which she is regarded as an expert). She devises and runs training programmes and workshops for clients on cutting edge issues, to reflect best practice in their particular sectors, as well as working with the Employers’ Forum on Age and the CIPD.

Professional memberships
Rachel is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Employment Lawyers Association and the Industrial Law Society, as well as the Law Society.