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Bettina Bender - Partner

Bettina Bender is a Partner specialising in employment law. Bettina provides contentious and non-contentious employment law advice to international, European and English publicly listed and limited companies. She has particular expertise in advising US parent companies with UK based subsidiaries.

Bettina is experienced in providing advice on the following:

strategic employment law advice for corporate clients
internal HR investigations, and disciplinary and grievance procedures
board room disputes, including executive appointments, departures and bonus issues
enforcement of restrictive covenants, confidentiality obligations and team moves
complex discrimination litigation
collective redundancies
data protection issues

Bettina is a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association, the UK Employment Lawyers Association, and the Association of Partnership Practitioners, the International Bar Association and the German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Bettina is bi-lingual in English and German.

Prior to joining CM Murray LLP Bettina worked at two City law firms and a leading national law firm.

Articles and press comments
29 Jan 2010	Warning that Dads' leave will hit firms (pdf)	The Gazette
22 Jan 2010	FTSE executives' pay increases are lower than the average UK pay rises, for the first time in 8 years (pdf)	Human Resources
16 Jan 2010	JP Morgan sparks fresh outrage as bonuses soar (pdf)	The Independent
16 Jan 2010	Bank bonuses: The people v Wall Street (pdf)	The Telegraph
12 Jan 2010	Banks braced for a new backlash over bonuses (pdf)	The Independent
04 Jan 2010	The BBC is "wasting a lot of talent" by not valuing older female (pdf)	Human Resources
16 Dec 2009	Best of both worlds (pdf)	Solicitors Journal
02 Dec 2009	Bonus Presentation (PowerPoint)	Presentation
26 Nov 2009	City critics say it will be bonuses as usual	Times Online
26 Nov 2009	Bank review wants pay disclosure (pdf)	New York Times
20 Nov 2009	Bankers' bonus bill in Queen's Speech looks threatening but has no teeth	People Management
20 Nov 2009	Bankers' bonus bill in Queen's speech looks threatening but has no teeth (pdf)	People Management
19 Nov 2009	May I see your papers?	Corporate Counsel
18 Nov 2009	Business leaders condemn the Government's legislation as 'frightening'	The Telegraph
10 Nov 2009	Press cutting (pdf)	Personnel Today
03 Nov 2009	City bankers sue Nomura for £3m over alleged sexism and racism	Personnel Today
31 Oct 2009	Employee Terminations in the UK: Risks and Tactics (pdf)	Eurowatch
01 Oct 2009	Employers liable for rape compensation claim	TLA Direct
27 Jul 2009	Terminations in the UK (PowerPoint)	Presentation