Employers
The firm provides strategic support to French and international employers across all their French employment law challenges. It handles high-stakes individual matters as well as sensitive collective projects, and secures the legal architecture of the company’s HR framework.
Individual exit negotiations
We support employers in conducting complex, high-stakes individual exit negotiations.
Sensitive one-off projects
The firm handles the company’s sensitive or exceptional projects, in particular reorganization projects, whether or not they require a job protection plan (PSE), as well as business transfers.
Employment contract termination procedures
We secure employment contract termination procedures, whatever their form: individual or collective dismissals, mutual termination agreements (rupture conventionnelle), collective mutual terminations (RCC), etc.
Legal structuring of the HR framework and corporate governance
The firm assists companies in structuring and securing their legal HR framework and governance: employment contracts, internal rules, charters, codes of conduct, whistleblowing procedures, collective bargaining agreements, compensation and working time policies, complementary (top-up) benefit schemes (PSC), value-sharing and employee savings schemes, delegations of authority, corporate offices, etc.
Social dialogue
We advise companies on the day-to-day management of social dialogue and their staff representative bodies, in particular the organization of professional elections, the preparation and follow-up of works council (CSE) consultation procedures and the conduct of collective bargaining.
Employment litigation
The firm represents employers before all competent courts, in particular the French employment courts (conseils de prud’hommes), the judicial courts and the administrative courts.
Internal investigations
We provide strategic leadership of internal investigations relating to psychosocial risks, either as investigating counsel or within a framing and coaching mission for the employees conducting the investigation.
Use of non-salaried or outsourced work
The firm advises companies on the use of third-party workers and service providers, in particular temporary work, wage portage (portage salarial), duty of vigilance and the management of the risks of reclassification as an employment contract or of offenses linked to illegal work: concealed work, unlawful supply of labor, illegal labor lending, etc.
Relations with the authorities
We support companies in their relations with the labor and social security authorities, in particular in the context of URSSAF audits and procedures relating to protected employees, as well as in the related disputes.
Setting up of foreign companies
The firm regularly supports foreign companies in launching their activity in France and hiring their first employees.