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, 2020

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

Awards and accolades

• Chambers Global, Global-wide: Employment, Chambers and Partners, 2020