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Melanie Pimenta

Senior Solicitor

Melanie Pimenta

Senior Solicitor

Melanie is a senior 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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  • 08 January 2024
  • Employment

Employment Law: What to expect in 2024?

As we bid farewell to another remarkable year, let’s look forward and embrace the new opportunities that 2024 has in store for us.

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  • 20 December 2023
  • Employment

10 top tips for negotiating a redundancy settlement agreement

In today’s financial market, redundancies are unfortunately becoming a reality for many businesses and employees.

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  • 14 December 2023
  • Employment

Talking Employment Law: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion – Code of Practice

In this podcast, Rebecca Dowle and Lucy Densham Brown, members of the employment team, summarise the key takeaways from the new code of practice on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion published by the British Standards Institute.

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  • 13 December 2023
  • Employment

The Twelve Insights of Christmas: a Festive Gift for Employers

It’s that time of year again; Christmas is quickly approaching, and numerous organisations all throughout the nation will be hosting events to honour this wonderful and festive season.

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  • 28 November 2023
  • Employment

The risk of insolvency with equal pay claims: how can you avoid them?

Even though the law states that everyone should be paid equally for work of comparable value, this does not always happen in practice.

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  • 16 November 2023
  • Employment

TUPE Podcast Series: Service Provision Changes – Single specific events or tasks of short duration

In this fourth podcast in our TUPE Podcast Series, Amanda Glover will be looking at the second of the three conditions required for a service provision change transfer..