Employment and labor

With more than 300 lawyers worldwide, our global employment and labor team has wide-ranging experience in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment and labor law including employee benefits, large global share plans and tax-efficient strategies and pensions.

“Represents clients in boardroom disputes, disciplinary issues, discrimination claims and whistle-blower proceedings, as well as cross-border transactional matters such as M&A, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations.” Chambers Global, 2019

We have an excellent record of handling high-profile disputes, regularly engaging in employment and labor civil court cases and tribunal advocacy, as well as advising on sensitive severance issues and boardroom disputes, class and collective actions, corporate governance and whistleblower claims and more standard disciplinary and grievance issues.

Likewise, our lawyers have substantial transactional experience, and are highly skilled at helping our clients effectively manage the employment and labor law aspects of multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions. We have a diverse international client base across the key industry sectors of financial institutions, energy, infrastructure, mining and commodities, transport, technology and innovation and life sciences and healthcare and also advise charities.

Our areas of work include

Boardroom disputes and severance claims
Collective bargaining issues including trade union recognition and negotiations
Discrimination and harassment claims
Employee benefits and executive compensation including incentive plans and taxation
Employment and labor law aspects of all corporate finance transactions
Employment and labor litigation
Employment policies and procedures, including Codes of Conduct and IT
Immigration law including visas, work permits and international mobility
International employment issues including dual contracts
Investigations of workplace issues and allegations
Judicial review advocacy
Pay and employment equity
Pensions and superannuation
Privacy law and access to information
Redundancies and dismissals
Service agreements, contracts of employment and HR handbooks
Transfer of undertakings
Whistleblower laws, retaliation claims and related investigations
Workplace health and safety incident response and education
Workplace and industrial relations disputes and strategies