Employment Law Event (7th May 2025)

Join our Employment Law Update webinar, with leading employment law professionals from international law firm Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP providing an update to HR professionals on key legal developments.

Topics to be covered:

• Employment Rights Bill – update
• Case law update
• Immigration update
• Employee Relations in the wake of AI
• Horizon scanning

Sasha Lormant

Sasha is a Principal Associate in the Eversheds Sutherland Employment, labor and pensions practice group having qualified in 2009. She specialises in providing advice and support to employers on employment law and business immigration. Sasha acts for a broad range of clients across a number of sectors, including transport, education and retail.

Sasha advises businesses and organisations on strategic people management issues in relation to matters such as: managing complex investigations, disciplinaries and grievances, discrimination issues, sickness and absence management and business restructuring and reorganisation.

Sasha has particular experience in handling Employment Tribunal claims, and has experience covering issues such as unfair dismissal, breach of contract, whistleblowing, and discrimination of all types.

Sasha also provides immigration advice to businesses including – obtaining permission for applicants to live and work in the UK; advising on employer obligations as licenced sponsors; and illegal working and right to work.

Sasha enjoys delivering training and regularly speaks at client and public seminars on immigration and employment law.

Paul Sands

Paul is a Senior Associate in the Eversheds Sutherland Employment, labor and pensions practice group. He specialises in employment tribunal litigation and advises clients on a range of complex employment issues including whistleblowing, discrimination, TUPE, restrictive covenants and unlawful deduction from wages. Paul conducts most of his own advocacy and has appeared in numerous employment tribunals across England.

His recent experience includes – successfully defending a charity against a multi-faceted employment tribunal claim involving issues of direct and indirect disability discrimination, failure to make reasonable adjustments, whistleblowing, data protection and unfair dismissal. The claims were considered by a tribunal over the course of a 4-week trial at which the Respondent successfully defended all claims; advising a recruitment business on the enforceability of its restrictive covenants against a recently exited employee who had set up a competing business and corresponding with the ex-employee in order to bring the matter to an amicable resolution; and defending a global logistics company against claims of whistleblowing detriment relating to disclosures of poor health and safety.

Paul is a regular speaker for HR training sessions and employment law updates and is also a member of Employment Lawyers Association (ELA).

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