LIES. TOXIC . BULLYING - Case Assistant Equilaw Employee Review

1.0
13 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

They pay you to leave them good reviews :) On google and on glassdoor

Cons

Every honest review they cover up, they pay members of staff to make glassdoor accounts to leave them good reviews, see below how they covered up the honest reviews. They do not have any team building activities thats a lie the company benefits are not good either. Its a toxic law firm. They break SRA rules and hold client money for longer than 24 hours. The managers think they are better than the rest. If u care about ur mental health then stay away

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Equilaw Response
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Thank you for your review. To clarify, we do not pay our staff to leave reviews on Glassdoor or Google. As you are aware, anyone can post a review at any time to leave their honest feedback, including ex-employees. We do not and cannot control this. Regarding your comment about breaking SRA rules, we are heavily regulated by the SRA, and we follow strict SRA protocols. If you are a current employee, we strongly advise you to speak to and report any issues to the Risk and Compliance Director, Chief Financial Officer, or Managing Director straight away so they can investigate this. Like many organisations, we admit that we have struggled to hold regular team-building events in the past couple of years due to the pandemic, however, I’m pleased to say our Christmas party at Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham in December 2021 was fantastic and very much welcomed after such a difficult period. If you are a current employee, you will know that just this month at The Greenway Hotel and Spa in Cheltenham, our team-building event for the whole firm was held. It was a great success and lots of fun for the staff. Our teams took part in a Segway experience, lazer clay shooting, archery, and sheep herding followed by a lovely BBQ. We continue to invite staff to our monthly pizza lunches and our charity and social committee are already planning our next events as we speak, one at the end of Summer and a Christmas event which the staff are very much looking forward to. Team Managers also have their own budgets and are busy planning special events for their hard-working teams throughout the year. Regarding your comment about company benefits, if you are a current employee, we would encourage you to book a benefits overview session with a member of HR and we will be more than happy to run through our benefits with you. In summary, our flexible benefits package includes 32 days of annual leave which increases with long service, a paid sabbatical, birthday day off, health care cash plan, life assurance, study support programme, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, an employee of the month and year awards as well as a wellbeing hub and employee assistance programme, to name a few. Lastly, if you are a current employee, you will know that we held several focus groups and director lead lunches for our staff very recently where we invited you to give your feedback. We will be doing this again later this year, as they were very well received. In the meantime, we invite you to speak to any member of the senior management team who will listen to your concerns and aim to put them right. You can also use our staff suggestion scheme to put forward any suggestions for improvement which will be discussed by our staff suggestion committee. Thank you again for taking the time to leave a review.

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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