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Melanie Pimenta

Associate

Melanie Pimenta

Associate

“Absolutely first class service. Extremely prompt, and useful advice throughout my engagement with Melanie Pimenta at Clarkslegal.”

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Melanie is an associate solicitor in the employment team, who acts for businesses and individuals. She is an experienced advocate having undertaken over 130 hearings including eight final hearings at the employment tribunal.

Melanie uses this expertise when she advises clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and day to day HR enquiries such as grievances, disciplinary hearings and redundancies amongst other queries. She has substantial experience drafting policies, contracts and settlement agreements and has negotiated the resolution of a wide range of disputes.

Melanie also advises individuals and businesses on a range of privacy and data protection matters, including audits to ensure compliance, data protection policies and procedures (including DSARs and data breaches) and enquiries relating to the UK data protection legislation. She has recently advised a client on implementing an international data transfer agreement (IDTA) with consideration of a transfer risk assessment.

Her recent experiences include: implementing a European-wide strategy to prepare businesses for ongoing data protection compliance, advising on the everchanging Covid-19 legislation and successfully defending a claim for unfair dismissal from initial instruction to advocacy at the four-day final hearing.

Prior to joining Clarkslegal, Melanie trained and worked in-house at G4S, the world’s largest security company, for over 7 years. She managed employment issues for around 35,000 staff.

Working in-house has enabled Melanie to develop commercial acumen, sector knowledge and formulate practical and innovative solutions to clients’ legal queries.

Read, listen and watch our latest insights

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  • 21 May 2025
  • Employment

The Rise of Side Hustles and Polygamous Working

In the evolving world of work, the rise of side hustles and “polygamous working” is reshaping the employment landscape in the UK.

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  • 16 May 2025
  • Employment

London Seminar – Understanding the Employment Rights Bill: Legal changes and what they mean for HR

We are pleased to invite you to an in-person seminar at our London office on Tuesday 24th June, hosted by our Employment Law team. Join Monica Atwal, Managing Partner; Katie Glendinning, Partner; and Amanda Glover, Associate, as they unpack the legal implications of the new Employment Rights Bill and what it means for your organisation.

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  • 16 May 2025
  • Employment

Reading Seminar – Understanding the Employment Rights Bill: Legal changes and what they mean for HR

We are pleased to invite you to an in-person seminar at our Reading office Tuesday 17th June hosted by our Employment Law team. Join Monica Atwal, Managing Partner, Katie Glendinning, Partner and Amanda Glover, Associate, will unpack the legal implications of the new Employment Rights Bill and what it means for your organisation.

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  • 15 May 2025
  • Employment

TUPE Podcast Series – Information and Consultation Obligations

In this ninth episode of our TUPE Podcast Series, Katie Glendinning, a Partner in the employment team, will examine the information and consultation obligations under TUPE.

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  • 12 May 2025
  • Employment

Talking Employment Law: The Employment Rights Bill – Part 2

In part two of the Employment Rights Bill podcast series, Louise Keenan and Melanie Pimenta, members of the employment team, will discuss changes to collective redundancies, flexible working and sick pay.

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  • 08 May 2025
  • Employment

Statutory Sick Pay Scheme changes: how can employers prepare for such changes?

The government has recently changed the Statutory Sick Pay provisions; it is anticipated that such changes will ‘help people to stay in work and grow the economy’.