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Alex Mizzi provides pragmatic, tailored advice to businesses and senior executives on all aspects of employment law, including business protection, employee relations, HR strategy and discrimination.
Alex is a solicitor in the Employment team. She advises businesses of all sizes and senior executives on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She is also co-lead of the Employment practice's ESG group, and leads the team's work on AI and technology in the workplace.
She works closely with HR Directors and business owners to help them navigate through complex employee relations issues, often involving discrimination or whistleblowing allegations, to find a pragmatic solution.
Her work for senior executives complements this, enabling her to see a dispute from all angles and anticipate tactics. She also advises HR professionals on strategic and governance issues such as gender pay gap reporting or implementing large-scale business changes.
Alex also focuses particularly on business protection. She gives tailored advice to individuals and businesses on the legal and commercial issues surrounding employee competition, whether lawful or unlawful. She regularly acts in High Court disputes involving breaches of confidentiality, restrictive covenants, and team moves. She has a particular interest in issues of employee privacy and data protection.
Alex has written for and been quoted in trade and national press and has appeared on BBC Radio and television news, discussing developments in employment law. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association Training Committee.
She is a regular speaker at client seminars and provides bespoke in-house training for HR teams and business owners.
- Advising a luxury travel business on a team move and breaches of confidentiality and restrictive covenants by senior staff, successfully obtaining a springboard injunction in the High Court and setting the matter on favourable terms.
- Advising a boutique law firm on handling a complex disciplinary investigation and grievance with regulatory implications, as well as, linked data protection issues.
- Advising an NGO on minimum wage compliance and handling an HMRC inspection, successfully demonstrating to HMRC that the organisation was compliant and avoiding reputational damage.
- Advising a major US investment firm on setting up in the UK, implementing service agreements for senior staff and compliance with local employment law.
- Advising a service provider on a potential goods and services discrimination claim (which was successfully resolved on confidential terms).
Alex started ballet lessons at the tender age of 30 and still practices her pirouettes at home, much to her daughter's amusement.
