Nick Huffer

Employment Lawyer

Nick is a very experienced employment lawyer with over 30 years’ experience. He specialises in employment relations and advises private and public sector employers on trade union relationships in the workplace.

Nick advises on collective dispute resolution and has worked on a number of industrial disputes, including the Gate Gourmet dispute at Heathrow. He also handles multi-party employment tribunal claims and large-scale organisational change, including restructuring, TUPE transfers, insolvency, outsourcing, procurement and collective redundancies.

Nick has helped shape employment law as well as advise on it. On behalf of employers and the CBI, he gave input on new legislation including the Agency Workers Regulations 2010, the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations and changes to union recognition law. From 2013 to 2015 he was an adviser to the CBI delegation at the International Labour Organisation Conference in Geneva. In 2015 he sat on the Standards Committee of the Employers’ Group.

Nick co-authored Employees and Trade Unions in the UK in The Law and Practice of Restructuring in the UK and US (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2017). From 2012 to 2016 he was an editor for employmentbuddy.com.