Employment

We advise our clients on all aspects of relations with staff representative bodies, trade unions and administrative authorities, including collective bargaining, consultation, information, profit sharing, social dialogue, conflict prevention and management.

We assist our clients with the implementation of their restructuring projects, including redundancy plans, collective redundancies, site closures, transfers of business activities, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, sales and internal reorganizations. We also help them manage the employment implications of these operations, including mobility, redeployment, training, employment contract modifications, and collective common-consent termination.

We advise on complex transactions involving business transfers, including LBOs, carve-outs, joint ventures, subcontracting and public service delegations. We analyze the impact of these operations on employment, including the transfer of staff, the continuity or harmonization of collective agreements, social responsibility, and non-compete clauses.

we advise our clients on all aspects of individual relations, including recruitment, employment contracts, remuneration, working hours, leave, discipline, performance, training, mobility, secondment, loan of personnel, employment contract termination, and settlement agreements.

We advise our clients on all matters affecting corporate officers and executive management, including appointment, compensation, liability, social protection, taxation, mobility, non-compete clauses, penalty clauses for training, removal from office or employment contract termination, and settlement agreements.

We assist and represent our clients in criminal proceedings relating to employment law (health and safety, working conditions, collective relations), including breaches of the French Labor Code and Social Security Code, undeclared work, psychological harassment and sexual harassment, discrimination, endangerment of the lives of others, hindrance to employee representation rights, etc.

We assist and represent our clients in all types of employment disputes, whether individual or collective, before the civil courts (collective disputes, class actions, electoral disputes, employment contract disputes), commercial courts (unfair competition, poaching, employment law in insolvency proceedings), administrative courts (protected employees, job preservation plans), criminal and police courts, and courts of arbitration. We also assist them with the development of litigation strategies, as well as prevention and amicable dispute resolution, through mediation, conciliation or settlement.

We advise our clients on obligations and best practices regarding compliance and management of social risks, including the fight against discrimination, harassment, corruption, money laundering, the financing of terrorism, fraud, forced labor, child labor, personal data protection, respect for human rights, duty of care, corporate social responsibility, social dialogue, health and safety at work, and crisis management.

We advise our clients on all aspects of social security law and social protection law, including disputes about social security regimes, social security contributions, disputes relating to occupational risks, and the internal and international mobility of employees and corporate officers.