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Employment
Our employment law team is here to support you with every aspect of employment law, from advice on day-to-day matters to resolving complex disputes.
We work closely with you, bringing a practical, commercially-focused approach that aligns with your business goals.
Recognising the sensitive and strategic importance of employment issues, we provide guidance that not only addresses immediate needs but also considers the broader impact on your company’s policies and direction.
Our lawyers apply the law with common sense and pragmatism, delivering solutions that work for your business.
Employment law
Our lawyers cover all aspects of employment law, from advisory and transactional matters to contentious issues.We work closely with our clients, taking an approach that is both creative and commercial. We understand the sensitive nature of employment issues and how strategically important they can be, sometimes leading to decisions that change company policy or direction.
Our lawyers are trained to apply the law pragmatically, with a touch of common sense, to create workable business solutions.
Local legal experts, partnered across Europe
Employers across all sectors rely on our support, from multinational corporations and small businesses to public organizations and private enterprises.
We also regularly act for senior executives and high net worth individuals on a variety of complex matters.
Our employment lawyers build strategies to achieve the best possible solutions for our clients. We specialise in complex employment matters and risk management and whilst dealing with these sensitive matters.
Advise for Employers
Employers across all sectors rely on our support, from multinational corporations and small businesses to public organizations and private enterprises. Our employment lawyers develop tailored strategies to secure the best outcomes for you, specializing in complex employment issues, risk management, and handling sensitive matters with care.
Our lawyers apply the law with common sense and pragmatism, delivering solutions that work for your business.
Our Employment Law Team advises on most aspects of Employment law, including - but not limited to:
- Contracts and Policy Documents
- Day to day workplace issues (including grievances and disciplinary matters)
- Drafting and enforcing Employee Restrictive Covenants
- Employee data protection (including GDPR data subject access requests)
- Managing Exits (resignation, dismissal, end of a fixed-term contract, redundancy, retirement)
- Workforce Reorganisations / Business transfers and Employees rights
- Others (Benefits, communication with the Employee representative bodies)
Contracts and Policy Documents
The drafting of agreements and workplace policies are an essential and important part of Employment law. With a large team and legal experts at every location, we can offer advice at the highest level.
Contact us for questions about, for example
- Contracts of employment
- director service agreements
- Confidentiality and restrictive covenant agreements
- workplace policies
- Agreements with employee representative bodies
- Staff handbooks.
We are aware that all of those combined form an important framework for the employment relationship. Often these documents and agreements will contain important protections and rights for both the employer and employee.
We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke engagement contracts and policies and frequently advise on workplace agreements with employer representative bodies.
Service for employers
Our lawyers apply the law with common sense and pragmatism, delivering solutions that work for your business.
Our Employment Law Team advises on most aspects of Employment law, including - but not limited to:
- Contracts and Policy Documents
- Day to day workplace issues (including grievances and disciplinary matters)
- Drafting and enforcing Employee Restrictive Covenants
- Employee data protection (including GDPR data subject access requests)
- Managing Exits (resignation, dismissal, end of a fixed-term contract, redundancy, retirement)
- Workforce Reorganisations / Business transfers and Employees rights
- Others (Benefits, communication with the Employee representative bodies)
Day to day workplace issues (including grievances and disciplinary matters)
The questions and problems that arise in workplace settings are almost endless as are the possible solutions. We give tactical advice, not just legal advice and help you to see to all legal and contractual requirements, to identify risks at an early stage and to proactively develop (compliance) systems to prevent them.
Our Employment team can support you in all Day-to-Day issues in a variety of ways. If required, they can also represent your interests in court.
We provide support in all HR related legal challenges and also advise in disputes that arise with employees or employee representatives.
Always tricky and a matter of specific national law - employee restrictive covenants
We can advise employers on all employee restrictive covenants.
The following are common types of restrictive covenants between companies and their employees:
- Non-compete agreement
- Non-solicitation agreement
- Non-disclosure agreement
Whether restrictive covenants are allowed at all, enforceable or not, and to what extent, depends largely on national laws (and therefore can vary widely from one country to another).
Most countries impose varying rules on what specific types of clauses are allowed in restrictive covenant agreements, if the employee must be compensated and how reasonable limits must be defined according to a period of time, geographical area or other. Oftentimes the law is in favour of the least possible restriction on the employee.
Let us navigate you in order to find the best possible solutions for your business.
Managing exits
Whatever the reason may be for parting ways, when an employment relationship comes to an end it can be a time-consuming process and disruptive to the business. Sometimes a mutual termination agreement is the best way to ensure a clean break and limit the financial exposure, and management time, for employers.
The most common paths of terminating employment are:
- Resignation
- Dismissal
- End of a fixed-term contract
- Redundancy
- Retirement
If you are considering dismissing an employee, it is important that you understand the accepted grounds for doing just that under applicable employment legislation and the process you need to follow strictly in any given situation, such as when dealing with misconduct, capability, ill-health, poor performance or redundancy.
On the other hand there might be a less formal option such as an agreed exit by way of a settlement agreement or termination agreement, that might be a commercially better option.
Workforce Reorganisations / Redundancy programmes
We advise on redundancy programmes ranges from managing individual redundancies to large scale collective redundancy schemes. We guide our clients through the complexities of information and consultation obligations with both employees, employee representative bodies and trades unions.
Also any other kind of workforce reorganisation, particularly one across several jurisdictions does not have to create chaos. But many do when there is no clear plan for communicating with employees and other stakeholders early, often, and over an extended period.
In many jurisdictions, particularly in Europe, a timely engagement of workers is not just about employment relations but constitutes a legal requirement. We can help to manage these legal and financial liabilities and allow for a smooth transition with minimum disruption to operations.
Business transfers and Employees rights
When a business changes owner, its employees may be protected under the Transfers of Undertakings Directive 2001/23/EC or, in the UK, by way of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - the implications for a business can be hugely material.
Employers need to know when this protection applies and how to navigate and implement the rules in order to avoid claims and liabilities.
We build strategies to achieve the personal or commercial objectives of our clients
We regularly act for senior executives and high net worth individuals on a variety of complex matters across all sectors and build strategies to achieve the personal or commercial objectives of our clients. Our team is adept at negotiating high-value settlements, and successful in negotiating key non-financial terms which clients would not be able to achieve in the courts.
Where litigation cannot be avoided, we use our experience and commitment to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.
Service for Senior Executives
Recognizing the sensitive and strategic importance of employment issues, we provide guidance that not only addresses immediate needs but also considers the broader impact
Our team of Employment law experts advises with regard to:
- Contracts and policy Documents / Advising on appointment terms and conditions
- Advising on cross-border assignments
- Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures
- Dismissals and Settlement Agreements / Redundancies
- Restraint of Trade and Enforcement Actions
- Whistleblowing
- Tribunal and Court Representation
- Other matters including but not limited to Discrimination claims / Harassment claims
European mobility & Business immigration
Wishing to recruit staff to or from staff from another jurisdiction? This may not create an issue if your business in based in the European Union and the recruitment / secondment takes place within the European Union. However, with the UK no longer being member of the EU, EU/UK cross border recruitments / secondments are particularly challenging and need to meet stringent immigration requirements. We are here to assist.
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