Our employees – within our business we have a low level of migrant labour. With the exception of apprentices and interns, all staff are paid at or above the Living Wage Foundation rate. The standard terms and conditions of employment for our staff provide for the freedom of the employee to terminate his or her employment at any time, and state that any overtime is by agreement between Mills & Reeve and the employee.
We are very proud to have been listed for the last sixteen years in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies To Work For (mid-size organisations). Indeed, we are the only law firm to have achieved this.
We carry out regular employee satisfaction surveys. Our last employee satisfaction survey (April 2019) found that our employees continue to have exceptionally high levels of employee engagement, with 97% of our employees responding that they would recommend Mills & Reeve as a good place to work. 84% of our employees said that they felt valued for the work that they do. Our next employee survey will take place in early 2021.
Mills & Reeve also has the following policies published on our Intranet (which is accessible to all employees):
- Whistleblowing policy: protecting whistleblowers through our confidential reporting process;
- Harassment policy: prohibiting harassment and intimidation; and
- Disciplinary policy: prohibiting any threat of violence.
Furthermore, Mills & Reeve has a team of lawyers who work with clients to raise the profile of the issue of modern slavery and to achieve modern slavery compliance.