EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW

Employment and Labor law and practices have changed dramatically in recent years, affecting global and domestic businesses.

The growth of new markets, increasing workforce mobility, outsourcing and offshoring and other business developments have added to the complexity of the employment landscape. Competition for top talent has intensified, individuals are better informed about their rights, and the internationalisation of employment, especially at the executive level, is relentless.

Getting the right people in the right roles in the right locations, appropriately incentivised and supported, while, at the same time, protecting the organisation and its assets has never been more challenging. Practical and up-to-date expertise from a trusted adviser on employment law is now more important than ever.

Our employment team helps clients to manage their employment issues with confidence. We cover all aspects of employment law, providing commercially focused, cost-effective and common sense advice. We can also assess the need for, and co-ordinate advice from, lawyers in foreign jurisdictions for multinational and global companies.

Employee Incentives

Employee incentives play an important role in the battle to attract, engage and retain the right talent.

We help employers to develop incentive plans and packages that attract and motivate staff, helping to optimise their value and secure their commitment, while satisfying the increasingly complex tax and legal requirements.

Share plans and employee incentives are often a fundamental part of corporate transactions. We are experienced in developing a wide range of packages and benefits, and migrating such packages through acquisitions and disposals, takeovers, management buy-outs, transfer of businesses and flotations.

Our tax and employment teams advise on and implement a wide range of incentive arrangements including:

• Enterprise management incentives option plans(EMI);

• Company share option plans (CSOP);

• Unapproved option plans;

• Growth share structures;

• Nil-paid or partly paid share arrangements and special share classes;

• Cash-based bonus arrangements and phantom share option plans; and

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Employment Advice

Our employment advice team is experienced in advising senior individuals, public and private companies across a wide range of sectors on every aspect of employment law.

Areas we cover include:

• Corporate transactions, outsourcing and TUPE

• Employment contracts, directors’ service agreements and standard policy documents

• Board and senior level appointments

• Exit strategies, particularly relating to executives

• Disciplinary and grievance procedures

• Maternity, paternity and parental rights

• Part-time workers and other flexible working arrangements

• Managing sickness absence

• Bullying and harassment

• Agency workers, interns and secondment arrangements

• Consultancy agreements

• Restructuring, including redundancies

• Pre-emptive strategies to avoid employment claims

• Data protection

• Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal claims, including:

• all forms of discrimination

• unfair dismissal, including constructive unfair dismissal

• wrongful dismissal

• Injunctions in the courts to prevent breaches of restrictive covenants

• Court actions for breach of contract, and in particular contractual redundancy and bonus claims

The employment team has particular expertise in relation to the financial services, media, technology and transport sectors. Members of the team also sit on the firm’s fashion, retail, sport and regulatory, governance and investigations groups.

We also provide training to clients, with the course content tailored to meet the clients’ needs and the expertise of the audience.

For legal updates and news, please contact BACHIR & Associates

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