Employment, Labour & Pensions

Successful businesses in every sector know that employment terms, conditions, and benefits are key competitive factors in today’s changing and increasingly mobile markets. The challenge of attracting and retaining talented employees has intensified, as employment relationships adapt to the age of the platform worker and the emerging impact of automation and digitalisation.

To ensure the odds are on your side, you must manage your employees and their benefits, as well as your employee representatives, such as works councils and unions. Yet most HR matters – from executive contracts and equal opportunities to restructurings, transfer of business issues, and restrictive covenants – can be complex and contradictory. Your management team may have to deal with employment and pension law across multiple jurisdictions, facing issues like European directives, court decisions, national laws, local cases, and precedents. LawLex employment law specialists can help you navigate the maze of HR regulations, policy documents, and legal complexities confronting you on a daily basis.

If your business operates across borders, additional hurdles arise. With extensive experience in international employment law, the LawLex team advises on employment issues affecting cross-border businesses, including:

• The effects of mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, offshoring, nationalisation, and privatisation
• Works councils’ co-determination rights at international, national, or individual company levels
• Compliance (including remuneration) with national and international laws and standards
• Behaviour at work, misconduct, and discrimination
• Individual and collective dismissals and severance agreements
• The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• New forms of employment and ways of working
• Employee stock ownership schemes and pension schemes
• Wage taxes, fringe benefits, social security matters, expat regulations, and cross-border secondments
• Dispute resolution, litigation, and mediation for employment and pension matters, including labour law and trade union issues
• Employee competition and confidentiality
• Employment contracts, policies, shop agreements, and collective agreements

Because employment issues are often interconnected with corporate law, tax law, and regulatory matters, the LawLex employment team works closely with experts from other practice areas to provide comprehensive, strategic advice.

At LawLex, we guide our clients through evolving business environments, ensuring they make the most of opportunities while remaining fully compliant with employment laws and best practices.