LEGAL ADVICE
LABOR LAW STRATEGY
– Assistance during individual and collective negotiations within the company
– Drafting and implementation of wage policies, gain sharing and profit sharing schemes and company savings schemes
– Labor law-related issues in the area of company reorganization and restructuring
– Social audits, compliance audits and due diligence audits in the frame of an acquisition
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
– Monitoring of labor relations
– Drafting of all deeds relative to employee relations or relevant to the employer’s disciplinary power
– Employer’s obligations in the area of health and safety and health on the work place
– Drafting and implementation of compulsory labor policies (relative to equal opportunity, elderly employees, the disabled, young employees,…)
LABOUR RELATIONS WITHIN THE COMPANY
– Implementation and running of representative staff bodies
– Devising and managing labor relations and discussions, Compulsory annual Negotiation and the implementation or overhaul of collective agreements…
– Collective disputes
– Collective redundancy plans and employment rescue schemes
ADJUSTABLE WORKING TIME
– Auditing of tools for adjustable working time arrangements
– Tools for adjustable working time arrangements
– Devising and implementing collective agreements on working time
SOCIAL INSURANCE – AD&D – RETIREMENT
– Review and overhaul of compulsory, complementary or supplementary social insurance schemes
– Review of social insurance schemes in the frame of international relocation (secondment, expatriation)
– Assistance and representation during controls, friendly settlements or court proceedings with the Social Insurance, retirement and AD&D bodies (URSSAF, CRAM)
LITIGATION
Taking or representing proceedings for the company during individual or collective litigation issues in the area of employment law or social insurance law.
– Representation before the labor courts: Industrial Tribunal litigations, litigation in connection with incapacity for work, acknowledgement of the occupational nature of an injury or an illness, litigation in connection with URSSAF or RSI assessments..
– Representation before the civil and criminal courts for all types of labor-related litigation: litigation regarding the election or appointment of a staff representative or the running of staff representative bodies or litigation to incriminate the employer and incur the latter’s criminal liability
BUILDING AND HANDLING ON-GOING TRAINING COURSES AND LEGAL WATCHES
– Training seminars
– Legal watches; letter of information, alerts on developments in the area of Collective Bargaining Agreement provisions applicable to the company