With the help of our acute analysis of each matter and our proactive and creative approach, we offer you a global, specific, educational assistance that is adapted to your expectations and the requirements of your activities.

OUR EXPERTISE
COLLECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS
• Implementation and operation of the staff representative bodies
• Negotiation of collective agreements of all sorts (work duration, salary, incentives, profit sharing, shareholding plans, gender equality, seniors, arduousness of work…)
• Statuses of protected employees
Unlocking of crisis situations (trade union claims, strikes)

RESTRUCTURING AND EMPLOYMENT
• Definition and implementation of a labour strategy that is adapted (restructuring, delocalisation, outsourcing, transfer of companies and activities)
• Assistance with the implementation of the labour strategy (transfers of staff, employment safeguard plans, voluntary departures, collective contractual terminations, collective performance agreements, employment and skills predictive management agreements)
• Acquisition or transfer audits, compliance audits
• Harmonisation or negotiation of collective statuses

INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS
• Definition and implementation of the contractual relationship
• Management of conflict situations and terminations of employment agreements (disciplinary law, dismissals, negotiation of the consequences of a departure, assisting the employer before the labour inspectorate)
• Career management of the executives and senior managers (both as incumbents of an employment agreement and as corporate officers, terms and conditions of compensation, social protection, criminal and civil law liability)
• Global mobility (secondments, expatriations)

COMPENSATION AND SOCIAL PROTECTION
• Negotiating and establishing employee savings devices (incentives, profit sharing, employee savings plan),
• Negotiating and establishing employee shareholding devices (stock options, allocation of free shares),
• Negotiating and establishing pension plans or additional pension plans
• Assisting in the management of the auditing operations of the URSSAF (French union in charge of recovering the social security and family benefit contributions)

HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Defining and establishing occupational risk prevention actions (single document for assessing risks, inhouse regulations, the health protocol)
• Managing psychosocial risks
• Carrying out inhouse enquiries (harassment, discrimination, compliance…)

ETHICS
• Defining and establishing the regulations for using information technologies
• Defining and establishing the verification and monitoring regulations for employee work
• Advice and assistance with respect to data processing and compliance with the French general regulations for data protection and the French IT and liberties law (in relation with LWA’s digital practice)

LITIGATION
• Individual litigation (dismissal disputes, wage claims, harassment, etc.)
• Collective litigation before civil courts of general law, labour courts and administrative jurisdictions
• Alternative dispute resolution processes: mediation and arbitration