Devon-Lee Andriés

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DEVON-LEE ANDRIÉS

Employment Lawyer with experience in advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Strong legal professional with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)(with distinction) from the University of Pretoria. Dual qualified as Solicitor in England & Wales and Attorney in South Africa. Devon-Lee is experienced in advising employers on employment contracts and senior executive service agreements and exits, HR policies, restrictive covenants, redundancy exercises, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, grievance and disciplinary proceedings and other day-to-day HR queries.Her contentious experience encompasses advising on employment tribunal claims ranging in complexity including discrimination and whistleblowing claims.Devon-Lee spent 6 months on secondment at a global facilities management company of over UK employees where she gained invaluable experience in running employment tribunal claims in house.She also regularly presents training sessions to clients on a number of topics including legislation/case law updates and equality and diversity and endeavours to do so in an easy-to-understand, clear manner without complicated legalese.Recent examples of how Devon-Lee has supported clients include- running a mass settlement agreement process involving circa individuals employed in the travel industry. The project called for various short deadlines to be met over a 3 month period- delivering bespoke training sessions to the employees of a client on equality and diversity with a particular focus on bullying and harassment. Case studies were used to highlight, among other things, the fine line between “banter” and bullying in the workplace- assisting with a redundancy exercise affecting 45 employees, arising from a site closure for a client in the banking industry; and - advising on and successfully defending a race discrimination claim where an employee had attempted to provoke her manager whilst video recording on her mobile phone.