Practice Highlights

Our employment practice advises clients in the following main fields:


• traditional employment matters, such as the establishment of employment and employment contracts, recruitment and application proceedings, non-discrimination and termination issues
• compensation and employee benefits
• employee transfers and immigration, including the obtaining of work visas and permits
• relations with workers councils and unions, including the negotiation and conclusion of collective bargaining agreements and handling disputes with employee representative bodies
• high-profile employment services, such as executive terminations, confidentiality, non-compete and restrictive covenants, data protection issues and employee stock option plans
• special projects, like company shut-downs and mass redundancies, transfer of employees and labour law succession matters, re-organisation and restructuring, employment relations of mergers & acquisitions, business transfers, outsourcing or other business transactions
• social security & employment taxation
• intellectual property matters arising in employment contexts
• work force lending, and dealings with labour authorities and employment litigation