Advice
Providing day-to-day assistance to companies in their relations with their employees
On an individual level: drafting employment contracts, professional training, disciplinary law, implementing delegation of powers, social mandate and employment agreements, compensation and working hours, sickness and incapacity, non-complete clauses, overseas transfers and recruitment, dismissal, negotiated and voluntary termination, special statuses (sportspeople, models, journalists and freelancers, stylists, inventors, sales representatives).
On a collective level: setting up and running staff representation institutions (IRP – Institutions représentatives du personnel), monitoring of communications practices in relations with for IRPs, drafting and negotiating collective bargaining agreements (in particular concerning the transfer of or compensation for intellectual property rights, organization of working time, equality in the workplace, overtime pay, remote-working, flexi-time, etc.), preventative management of jobs and skills, protection of employees' personal data (RGPD), cyber-surveillance, workplace ethics, mental health risks, IT usage agreements, support in restructuring (in particular in the context of ad hoc mandate (Mandat ad hoc) and conciliation proceedings), drafting, negotiating and implementing job protection plans, voluntary departure plans, collective performance agreements, collective redundancy packages, employee profit-sharing and incentive schemes, company savings, stock options or share purchasing.
Labor and Employment Audits: acquisition audits, employees’ inventions or creations, mental and physical health risk management, discrimination, training, health and safety, employee savings, status and compensation of managers.
Providing assistance to top managers and corporate officers
Litigation
Providing assistance, advice and representation of plaintiff or defendant in civil courts (electoral disputes, challenges to trade union appointments, collective disputes, trade union disputes, etc.), criminal matters (infringements of labor or social security law), labor courts and workplace tribunals (Conseils des Prud’hommes), Courts of Appeal and Administrative Jurisdictions (in particular, when contesting administrative decisions of the Labor Inspectorate for disallowing the dismissal or transfer of protected employees and when contesting administrative decisions concerning employment protection plans (PSE – plan de sauvegarde de l’emploi) issued by the DIRECCTE...).
