Jo Hale is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Employment Lawyers Association. Her early career was in the National Health Service, as a Personnel Adviser and Senior Personnel Manager.

Then she became an assistant to the legal team at North Yorkshire County Council. She did her legal training at Rixons Solicitors, dealing with employment, family and criminal matters. On qualifying as a solicitor, she led a good part of the firm’s advocacy work at Magistrates, County and Crown Courts and Employment Tribunals. She was then made Director of Legal and Human Resources Services for Community Integrated Care. Jo’s work has spanned both employment law and HR. She regularly supports clients at employment tribunal and employment appeal tribunal.

This has included complex whistleblowing, discrimination and TUPE cases. On behalf of clients she completes the people due diligence aspects for acquisitions, plans and supports integrations, restructurings, redundancies and relocations, deals with transfers of undertakings in various EU jurisdictions, compiles gender pay gap reports, carries out audits of the HR activity, conducts job evaluation exercises and investigates complex grievance and disciplinary matters involving senior managers. In addition, she supports clients to plan and implement HR policies and procedures. She is a trusted adviser for many clients