Laura Farnsworth

Laura has been a member of the employment team at Lewis Silkin since qualifying as a solicitor in 2001 and has been a partner since 2009. Her day-to-day practice involves dealing with the full range of employment law issues, including performance management, ill-health absence, transfers, discrimination, redundancies, disciplinaries and grievances. Laura has a particular interest and expertise in the law on family rights, flexible working requests, sex discrimination and gender pay gap reporting, as well as how to deal with tricky disability and sickness absence issues. She has also advised several companies on their modern slavery statements and supply chain due diligence. Laura manages Lewis Silkin’s fixed fee HR and employment law support service: rockhopper.