Nick Chronias
Nick advises on all aspects of employment law. He has over 25 years’ experience of advising clients across many sectors including health (NHS and independent providers), consumer goods, logistics, professional services and manufacturing. His clients include UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Mail, BAE Systems and BT.
Nick is one of the rare specialists in trade union relations. He also has substantial experience of team moves, High Court litigation, group litigation (including acting in the largest single test case in Employment Tribunal history), organisational change and board level issues.
Recent experience includes advising:
- Multiple household name employers on responding to national strikes in 2022 and 2023.
- Many clients on changing collectively bargained terms through negotiations with trade unions.
- Royal Mail in obtaining injunctions to restrain national strike action in the lead up to the 2019 General Election and Christmas period and 2017 Christmas period.
- Multiple NHS clients and handling concerns relating to internationally renowned doctors, including defending High Court claims challenging the clients handling of them.
- Many NHS clients on Chief Executive, Non-Executive and Executive Director arrivals and departures.
Nick is top ranked by Chambers for Industrial Relations work. Nick was the Times Lawyer of the Week in November 2019 for his Royal Mail work already mentioned.
Nick has supported clients in responding to numerous government consultations on changes to collective employment law, including the proposed changes to trade union and industrial action laws in the Employment Rights Bill.