Labour&Employment

Our attorneys are dedicated to helping our clients become more proactive in employment law-related matters. A key goal of our firm is to identify potential problems and to develop strategies and methods to lessen our client’s risks. We represent clients in all types of labor matters and provide them with appropriate and measured counsel aimed at minimizing, if not eliminating, costly legal actions.

Our services include

• Employee agreements
• Collective bargaining agreements
• Employee handbooks
• Compliance programs and personnel policies
• Employee benefit agreements and stock-option plans
• Collective dismissals, reductions in force and plant closings
• Due diligence reviews of employment law liabilities (pre- and post-acquisition)
• Internal investigations of wrong doing, including claims of discrimination, sexual harassment and employee theft
• Data protection and employee privacy rights
• Work permits and visas
• Training to managers and supervisors on a full range of employment workplace issues to help our clients limit employment liability
• Executive compensation strategies and structures; and Employee termination

Relevant Transactions

• Assisted an ice-cream producer in relation to a large collective dismissal and the restructuring of the client’s operations
• Reviewing the handbook and other HR rules of a major multinational company, including to advise on employees’ representative election and drafting and negotiating the collective bargaining agreement
• Drafting stock-option plan for a local mill and bakery producer
• Assistance of various clients in internal wrong doing investigations
• Drafting and negotiating various collective bargaining agreements