Employment
Praised for "helping to resolve delicate situations with top-quality advice" 2010, Chambers Europe
Our employment team in Paris advises on a varied spectrum of work, encompassing domestic and international matters, both contentious and non-contentious. Every lawyer can undertake tribunal advocacy.
Major international players from industries such as financial services and technology seek our expertise, especially in the following areas:
- Reorganisations, including mass redundancy schemes and outsourcing operations
- Implementation of policies, either arising out of sectors regulations such as Banking and Financial services regulations, life sciences regulations (DMOS) or group policies (such as whistleblowing)
- Handling of all collective matters, such as negotiation of collective agreements with unions (notably on working time), dealing with employee representatives (e.g. work’s council), assisting employers on strikes
- International aspects, including transfer of employees within group companies, secondment and expatriation (including competent jurisdiction, applicable law, applicable social security and immigration)
- Advice on discrimination, equal job equal pay, moral harassment and assistance of employers before the authorities responsible for fighting against discrimination in France
- Day to day employment advice, offer letters, employment contracts, discipline, sickness and maternity leaves, working time, individual dismissals, negotiation of settlement agreements
- Litigation before the civil courts for collective matters (for example to assist employers in obtaining the work’s council’s opinion on a particular matter) and before the labour courts for individual litigation
- Assisting in the employment consequences on merger and acquisition transactions, business transfers, including due diligence, advice on the work’s council opinion, TUPE regulations and subsequent harmonisation of the collective rights and benefits