Melanie Pimenta

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

Melanie has a particular interest and depth of experience on advising on discrimination and parental leave rights, having recently contributed to the Employment Lawyers’ Association (ELA) Working Party on Parental Leave rights in response to the Government’s Parental Leave consultation and providing advice and bespoke training to clients on the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act.

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 recently advised a client on implementing an international data transfer agreement (IDTA) with consideration of a transfer risk assessment and a biometric policy which was implemented within its wider global business.

Prior to joining Doyle Clayton, Melanie worked in a leading employment law team in Reading and trained and worked in-house at G4S. Working in-house has enabled Melanie to develop commercial acumen, sector knowledge and formulate practical and innovative solutions to clients’ legal queries.