Employment Law
We provide effective employment law assistance and representation for our clients in all areas of
employment law, as well as in closely related fields.
Below is a brief, but non-exclusive summary of these areas within employment law:
- Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, collective agreements, non-competition and confidentiality agreements, as well as training agreements, and making proposals on what should be included in an employment contract and what should not be regulated therein.
- Some employment contracts are governed by special rules, for example, the employment of executives.
- Preparation of the employer’s measures, instructions, and internal policies, along with proposals to make internal operations more efficient.
- Providing legal interpretation and analysis of legislation and contracts in specific legal matters in all fields of employment law.
- Providing legal opinions and representation in matters related to temporary agency work and employer’s and employee’s liability.
- Providing legal advice on occupational safety and health requirements, employment inspections, and conducting preliminary employment due diligence (with a focus on distinguishing between contracts to perform work and employment contracts, while addressing all circumstances in which the Labour Authority may conduct an inspection as provided by law).
- Conducting reorganizations and mass redundancies within the scope of the employer’s operation, drafting the necessary notices of termination, agreements, and providing legal advice and assistance related to changes in the employer’s personnel.
- In this context, providing comprehensive legal advice and assistance in connection with employment termination, drafting termination notices, termination notices with immediate effect, or terminations by mutual consent, along with formulating the proposals related to the terminations.
- Providing legal support in negotiations with trade unions and work councils.
Our law firm is actively involved in handling cases of wrongful termination of employment contracts, both on the employer’s and the employee’s sides. There are many occasions when an employer terminates an employment contract, and the termination does not comply with the statutory requirements. To achieve cost-effectiveness, our law firm can assist the employer in terminating employment contracts in accordance with the law, as well as represent the employer in lawsuits related to wrongful termination of employment.
According to our previous experience, many times the employer wrongfully terminates the employment contracts, and the employee may not even be aware of it, despite having various legal options at your disposal to remedy the resulting damages. If the employment contract is unlawfully terminated by the employer, the employee must initiate a lawsuit before the competent public administration and labour court within 30 days of becoming aware of the wrongful termination. Numerous remedies are available, such as claims for unpaid wages, absentee pay, compensation, and grievance fees.
In many cases of termination of employment, employees don’t receive severance pay, even though they are generally entitled to it if the employment lasted more than 3 years. Our law firm effectively represents employees in legal proceedings concerning severance pay.
In the case of an engagement, our law firm undertakes your representation in both court and out- of-court proceedings related to claims for compensation arising from employment, in particular damages arising from workplace injuries.
