Employment Laws
The employment law practice provides a variety of legal services for many small & medium sized companies which do not or cannot have their own department of Human Resources and have to outsource people.
Our expertise ranges from drafting employment contracts, employee policies, employee communications and conducting standalone internal disciplinary procedures to carrying out comprehensive employment law audits, providing advisory on specific points of employment law and assisting the HR departments of our clients with day- to-day legal issues.
We specialise in:
- General employment law advisory;
- Workplace conduct;
- Labour management relations;
- Training in all aspects of employment law including compliance, ethics, anti-discrimination, disciplinary proceedings and workplace conduct;
- Drafting of policies, advisory and participation in inquiries relating to sexual and other harassment and bullying in the workplace;
- Employee compensation and severance;
- Service regulations/handbooks and employee communication;
- Conduct of disciplinary proceedings and related documentation;
- Recruitment practices and termination of employees;
- Comprehensive documentation related to all HR-legal processes and requirements;
- Employment benefits;
- Employment taxes;
- Non-disclosure, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements and negotiations related thereto;
- Employment litigation;
- Anti-discrimination;
- Stock option plans;
- Long-term incentive plans for senior executives and employee incentive schemes;
- Industrial and labour issues related to gratuity, Provident fund, State insurance etc;
- Employment of expatriates;
- Termination of employment contracts and severances;
- Collective redundancies;
- Employment claims; and
- Disputes between employees and employers.