Julie Brodie

Julie is a member of Thompsons' team, based in the Bristol office.

She provides employment advice and representation on matters including unfair dismissal, disability, race and sex discrimination, Transfers of Undertakings Regulations (TUPE), protective awards, redundancy and wages claims as well as county court claims.

Following a 19-year career in the health service, Julie obtained her law degree from Glamorgan University in 2003.

She secured a training contract with a large insurance company in Bristol and qualified as a solicitor in 2006. Julie joined Thompsons as an employment rights solicitor in 2008.

She regularly gives talks and lectures on employment law to clients and unions at events organised by Thompsons.

Julie's case experience

• Settled a protective award for £750,000 for 400 union members when their employer agreed to reinstate their terms and conditions on holiday entitlement and compensate them for any losses incurred.
• Secured £15,000 in a claim for unfair redundancy and sex discrimination for a union member who had very quickly secured alternative employment on more advantageous terms and had received an enhanced contractual redundancy payment.
• Secured £14,000 for a member who had worked term time unaware that she was entitled to receive holiday pay. She was awarded £10,865 along with five years' back payment of employer pension contributions.
• Secured a tribunal decision in a case which dealt with fragmentation following a TUPE transfer that there could not be a service provision change if it was not possible to identify where the council's former activities had transferred from.

Professional membership

Julie is a member of the Industrial Law Society.

Testimonials

The case was intricate and at times downright difficult with a stubborn employer. I would like to say that Julie's work and knowledge on the issues have been first class and the advice and her work ethic on this matter second to none.

Julie's former client

As a group, we felt that we had a justifiable grievance, and were extremely pleased that UNISON and Thompsons agreed and took the case forward. Obviously, we were subsequently delighted with the outcome, and for this, we are extremely grateful for the part that Thompsons, and in particular, Julie Brodie, played in achieving a satisfactory settlement. I found that Julie was very efficient in grasping the issue, processing the paperwork, explaining the legal procedure in "layman's terms", and through ACAS, achieving the result that we were striving for. Once again, many thanks.

Julie's former client

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