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We offer a high quality and rapid response employment law service, covering contentious, non-contentious as well as strategic issues for employers and employees. We also work with employers to develop sensible contracts, policies and procedures and train their management teams in how to avoid disputes.

Our team acts for both employers and high net worth individuals. Our clients include large corporations, small companies, educational establishments, partnerships and charities. We also act for many international corporations, so are experienced in co-ordinating employment advice across many jurisdictions for corporate transactional work and employment matters including collective redundancies, international hires and secondments.

In particular, we advise on:

• recruitment
• contracts of employment, staff handbooks, policies (including disciplinary, grievance, etc)
• termination of employment, advising on procedure, negotiating severance packages and compromise agreements
• redundancies, collective and individual (including policies, procedures and consultation)
• restructuring, particularly the transfer of undertakings pursuant to Sec. 613a of the German Civil Code
• co-determination law
• works council law (including consultation and negotiating of shop agreements, conciliation of interest and social plans)
• law concerning collective bargaining
• pension schemes
• employment litigation.