Stephen Chegwin
Stephen Chegwin is a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland. Stephen specialises in industrial relations/labour and employment law, acting primarily for global and large-scale employers, many of which are "household names", in addition to specialist government departments. Stephen undertakes his own advocacy in the Employment Tribunals and at the Central Arbitration Committee, and has a special interest in trade union recognition and disputes, industrial action, collective bargaining, trade union rights, employment and civil litigation, large-scale reorganisations, collective redundancy and reorganisation projects, and discrimination.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Stephen was an HR practitioner and held several senior HR roles within both the private and public sector, delivering both organisation-wide strategic people solutions and operational HR, ER and IR support to those that he partnered. Stephen is also a member of the Employment Lawyers Association's Legislative and Policy Committee, a chartered member of the CIPD and a visiting lecturer for the University of Law, teaching employment law (amongst other subjects) on their post-graduate level teaching programmes.