Labour and Employment Law

Our labor and employment department offers to companies, professional organizations, managers and employees a comprehensive service on preventive and corrective solutions in any labor issue that may arise both nationally and internationally.

Counseling on employment and labor issues is a permanent need for our clients and a priority for our firm. Our labor and employment department offers to companies, professional organizations, managers and employees a comprehensive service on preventive and corrective solutions in any labor contingency that may arise both nationally and internationally.

Our labor lawyers have a deep knowledge of the business sectors, so they work closely with the clients, understand their business and provide a close and quality legal advice committed to their specific needs.

Labour Law advice

Negotiation of sectorial, company or lower level collective agreements.
Advice to Review and Interpretation Committees on collective agreements.
Collective dismissals (Labor force reduction scheme).
Collective proceedings for suspension of contracts, reduction of working hours, geographical mobility or substantial change of working conditions.
Negotiation with corporate representation and trade unions.
Early retirement schemes, complementary welfare schemes.
Labor due diligence: consistency of working conditions with sectoral, company or workplace collective agreements.
Access to work: hiring, modalities, bonuses, damages from breach of promise of hiring, exclusivity, post-contractual non-competition.
Recruitment through temporary employment agencies and auxiliary companies. Risk management of fraudulent hiring and illegal assignment of workers. Corporate successions
Work schedule, working hours, shift work, overtime and complementary hours, leaves and holidays. Reductions in working hours due to legal guardianship and types of leave of absence.
Salaries, remuneration structures, absorption and compensation, payment in kind, social benefits.
Relations with corporate representation: elections, unitary and union representation, guarantees.
Flexibility measures: substantial change in working conditions, functional and geographical mobility (relocation and transfer), reduction of working hours and salary.
Termination of the employment relationship: sanctions, disciplinary dismissals and dismissal on objective grounds.
Expatriates: expatriation conditions, golden parachutes clauses, legal implementation, termination of the employment relationship.Social Security and Unemployment: temporary incapacity, permanent incapacity, unemployment protection, maternity-paternity leaves, widowhood, orphanhood, retirement
Special labor relations:
- Senior management: contracts, golden parachutes, remuneration, management positions, exclusion from agreement, access to management bodies, social security placing, contract termination.
- Professional athletes: hiring, difficulties and termination of special employment relationship.
Occupational risks prevention: management of business risk by our own staff or by a third party, coordination of preventive actions and management of eventual accidents in the administrative and jurisdictional phase

Labour Management

Payslips, contribution forms, company certificates to request benefits, etc.
Study of the wage structure according to the applicable collective agreement.
Advice on Social Security contributions and wage effects in Labor force reduction schemes.
Proceedings before the Social Security, the Public Employment Service, the Labor Inspection and any other public body.

Legal advice on labor litigation

Sanction and disciplinary dismissal.
Objective, individual or collective dismissal.
Job classification.
Vacations, transfers, substantial changes of working conditions, contract suspensions and reduction of working hours.
Collective disputes.
Social Security (contributions and benefits)
Comprehensive advice before the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate and further management of the administrative and judicial procedure regarding infringement reports and social security payment reports.
Procedures arose from occupational accidents and illnesses (incapacity, benefits surcharge, claims of damages). Hazardous substances (asbestos).
Fundamental rights protection.
Damages caused by the company or by the employee (unfair competition, property damage, etc.)