Labour and Employment Law
Assisting in your business development, safeguarding the legal compliance of your HR practices, employee agreements, plans, schemes and settlements, defending your rights
We advise French and foreign companies on all aspects of labour and employment law, in an advisory and dispute resolution capacity: identifying which collective labour agreement applies, standard or template employment contracts, riders and addenda, full workforce schemes and agreements (bonus and employee savings schemes, working hours and remote working agreements, etc.), reorganisations (in particular, business transfers and workforce scale-downs), company-level collective agreements, elections and procedures involving employee representatives, negotiations with employee representatives and trade unions, individual relationships, negotiating senior manager exit agreements, etc.
- Identifying the relevant industry-wide collective bargaining agreement
- Standard and template employment contracts
- Employment contracts of key-employees
- Recruitment and hiring formalities
- Employee representatives’ election process (including drawing up and negotiating election rules)
- Processes to be followed with the works council
- Negotiating and signing company-level collective bargaining agreements
- Mandatory plans and reports submitted to the works council
- Employee savings schemes (in particular, mandatory and optional profit-sharing plans)
- Bonus schemes
- Working time, remote work and gender equality agreements
- Restructuring plans, with or without downsizing (changes to working conditions, business transfers, redundancies with or without social plan, collective performance agreements, voluntary departure plans, collective mutual separation plans, etc.)
- Implementing changes in working conditions, amendments to employment contracts, preventing and handling serious incidents (psychological harassment or bullying, occupational accidents and illnesses, etc.)
- Disciplinary procedures
- Negotiating and implementing employment terminations
- Mutual separation agreements, dismissals and layoffs/redundancies, settlement agreements