Good employee relations are a vital part of every business’ success. Our Employment, Labor and Pensions practices offer an integrated and coordinated service across all jurisdictions, tailored to your needs. Wherever in the world you operate, our lawyers are on hand to deliver the best advice on managing your company’s most important assets – your staff.

Our team brings together the collective knowledge and expertise of more than 300 lawyers operating in award-winning independent law firms across the world. With a deep understanding of the regulatory and cultural aspects of employing people across the the globe, we provide unrivalled expertise to multinational clients managing an international workforce.

We are able to offer advice in the following areas: benefits and compensation; recruitment; hiring, discipline and termination; model employment contracts and service agreements for separate international jurisdictions; all types of employment litigation including discrimination, workplace policies and procedures; day-to-day HR advice; employment litigation, class actions and cross-border disputes; acquisitions, business transfer, M&A, outsourcing (both domestic and international); international secondments; European works councils and other international labor relations issues; cross-border corporate reorganization; employment aspects of operational reorganizations, such as redundancy; employment aspects of business-critical incidents, such as competition authority investigations and treatment of implicated employees; multi-jurisdictional compliance, global mobility and immigration issues; and personnel records and employee data privacy.