The Employment & Labour Law Department

We advise and defend companies, associations and local authorities on all aspects of the labour law and the social protection law.

Within the framework of a true partnership, we accompany our customers with an effective and pragmatic approach. Thus, all the lawyers of the Employment & Labour Law Department, practice both counseling and litigation activities, which makes it possible to have an accurate evaluation of the risks.

Moreover, the close cooperation with the other departments of the firm allows for comprehensive solutions in the clients’ best interest.

In all of its practice areas, the Employment & Labour Law Department defends the interests of the clients of the firm before any jurisdiction:

• Court of arbitration for the individual disputes
• High Court of Justice for disputes of a collective nature
• District court for electoral disputes
• Court of the social security cases for disputes with the social security agencies and disputes related to accidents at work and work-related diseases
• Incapacity Litigation Court, in partnership with a council doctor
• Administrative Litigation Court for disputes related to protected employees or the persons concerned with the public law
• Criminal Court for penal disputes
• Then, in the event of appeal, assistance in front of the Courts

Practice areas

• Assisting companies in their economic and strategic development

- Repurchase of companies: audit of the companies, harmonization of the by-laws
- Reorganization and collective lay-off
- Externalization of activities
- Relocation of the company

• Assisting companies in their international dimension

- Assistance in the establishment of subsidiaries of foreign companies
- Assistance in European Human Resources Management (European Staff Committee, comparative law,...)
- Expatriation and detachment
- Hiring of foreign employees in France
- Social protection of the expatriate

• Assisting companies in the management of their employees social protection and end of career

- Control URSSAF - Setting up and modification of the social protection methods and additional retirement pension
- Impacts of reorganizations
- Setting up of policies for the employment of seniors
- Evaluating the regulations of the various modes of retirement

• Assisting companies in their entire remuneration policy

- Setting up of tools of remuneration allowing an optimization of the tax and social constraints and to find tools to develop loyalty of employees
- Audit of the contributions and taxation of the wages
- Setting up of differed systems of remuneration: shareholding of the personnel, salary savings accounts

• Assisting companies in matters of health and safety at work

- Training and counseling aimed to prevent and reduce occupational hazards
- Setting up compliance of the safety procedures
- Litigation recourse regarding accidents at work and work-related diseases
- Litigation of the inexcusable fault of the employer
- Litigation of the criminal responsibility of the employer
- The delegation of powers
- Optimization of pricing accidents at work and work-related diseases
- Legal assistance in the management of stress at work

• Employers Groups

- Assistance in setting up and structuring Employers Groups and G.E.I.Q. (Employers Groups for Integration and Qualification)
- Assistance in the choice of the collective labour agreement applicable for the multi-sector Employers Groups
- Drafting of conventions of provision and work contracts
- Assistance in the daily management of the Employers Groups and G.E.I.Q. (Employers Groups for Integration and Qualification)

• Assisting in individual work relations

- Choosing work contract types, complex contracts (group, executives,…)
- Particular clauses: mobility, non-competition, respect of the clientele, inventions, etc
- Disciplinary law, management of absenteeism
- The control of dismissals, conventional break-ups, transactions
- Telecommuting
- Wage services

• Collective relations of work

- Setting up institutions representative of the personnel
- Protection plans of employment
- Plans of voluntary departure
- The control of the collective negotiation in the company
- Trade union rights
- Data-processing charter, ethical charter
- Organization of the duration of work
- The administration of employment forecasts and competences (G.P.E.C.)

• Public labour law

- Non-statutory personnel of the territorial authorities, H.L.M (Council Housing) offices, and of the C.C.I. (Chamber of Commerce and Industries)
- Transfer of work contracts from private towards the public sector or from the public to the private one
- Social audit in particular in the event of resumption of control and of succession of public service delegation contracts.