Practice Areas

The Employment team has extensive experience in advising companies and/or their managers before the French courts and administrative authorities (including the Defender of Rights – Défenseur des Droits) in connection with sensitive, individual or collective proceedings involving:

• Employment law (transfers of employees, termination of employment contracts, international mobility, collective bargaining, employee saving schemes and shareownership, elections of employee representative, trade union law, etc.);
• Social security law (social security contributions liability and recovery, work accidents and injuries, gross negligence, etc.);
• Criminal liability employment law (offence of hindering trade union activities, undeclared work, discrimination and harassment, health and safety, etc.).

With their high-profile judicial practice developed for prestigious and sophisticated clients, the Employment team’s lawyers have demonstrated unique technical and procedural expertise in numerous iconic and highly-publicized cases, notably in relation to complex restructurings (compliance with consultative procedures, validity of job protection plans, expert investigations, employee representatives’ emergency notification procedure, etc.)

The lawyers bring together multi-disciplinary litigation teams, notably including lawyers from the firm’s tax, commercial, corporate and restructuring departments in order to anticipate and tailor their practice to unprecedented litigation subject-matters (co-employment, tort liability within company groups, status of workers on digital platforms, etc.) which often involve legal concepts from other areas of law (fraud, abuse of law, economic dependency, transfer pricing, etc.).