Employment Law

Collective actions for employees

We have handled dozens of collective actions brought by employees against employer companies, concerning:

• Dismissal compensation
• Wages in arrears
• Outstanding remuneration
• Violation of Workplace Regulations
• Unilateral detrimental change of employment terms
• Compensation for overtime work
• Infringement of personality rights in the workplace

In practice, these disputes are often decided by the details: how actual working time is documented, what the Workplace Regulations or the applicable collective agreement provide, and how it is shown that a change in duties or pay amounts to a detrimental change rather than a lawful exercise of managerial prerogative. This is why gathering and correctly reading the documents is the first, most critical stage of every case.

Workplace accidents

We have handled workplace accident cases before both the civil and the criminal courts.

A workplace accident usually gives rise to two parallel proceedings: a civil one, for compensation of the damage and moral harm, and a criminal one, for any breach of health and safety rules. The two proceedings affect one another, which is why the strategy must be unified from the outset.

Advisory services for businesses

We provide businesses of every kind with advisory services in employment law, including, indicatively:

• Drafting of dependent employment contracts
• Independent services agreements and contracts for work
• Outsourcing arrangements
• Agreements with sales staff
• Drafting of Workplace Regulations

Our aim is the full information and compliance of our business clients with labour legislation, as well as their protection from unfair practices by their employees — including protection of their know-how and protection against unfair competition. Note that the legal characterisation of a relationship — dependent employment, independent services, or a contract for work — is judged not by the title of the agreement but by the actual conditions under which the work is performed.

Representation before authorities and courts

We undertake the representation of both employers and employees before the Labour Inspectorate, as well as before the civil, administrative and criminal courts of every level of jurisdiction.

Proceedings before the Labour Inspectorate are not a simple mediation: the facts recorded and the statements made there follow the case into court. This is why preparing for the hearing — for both the employee and the business — is undertaken with the same seriousness as a court hearing.