Lydia is an Employment Solicitor at Thackray Williams LLP. As the Firm’s Retail, Leisure and Hospitality Sector Lead in Employment, she brings a practical, commercially minded perspective to the employment challenges facing pubs, bars and wider hospitality operators. She advises individuals and businesses on a full spectrum of employment challenges and understands the sector’s fast paced, people driven environment and the real-world pressures that come with managing diverse teams, high turnover, and an evolving regulatory landscape.

Lydia’s experience includes providing advisory support on day-to-day matters such as disciplinary, ill-heath, performance improvement, flexible working/family rights, grievance procedures, contractual disputes, unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing claims and corporate transactions, as well as representing clients in Tribunal disputes.

At this event, Lydia will translate legal developments into practical guidance on the employment issues currently shaping the sector and offer strategies to empower hospitality leaders to manage risk confidently, and stay ahead in a challenging market.