Employment

In today's increasingly competitive environment, to attract and retain talent the understanding of and compliance with employment law regulations at a local and international level has become one of the essential components of a successful Human Resources strategy.

What are your challenges

Human resources management and all associated legal matters are key to numerous business challenges:
  • Opening and closing of subsidiaries.
  • Attracting and retaining the ideal staff.
  • Protecting the company’s competitive advantages.

 

  • Managing international workforce and employee mobility.
  • Transfer of business and M&A deals, among others.

 

To respond to these challenges, you will need:
  • Legal advisors with advanced expertise in all areas of employment law.
  • A business partner who understands the challenges you are facing and provides seamless solutions, to align compliance to legal requirements with business constraints.
  • A committed, pragmatic and responsive team.

 

How we can assist you

Whether for a specific project or for on-going legal support in daily HR matters, we can assist you with the entire spectrum of employment and social security law issues, including:

Management of the daily employment relationship

  • HR documentation, including employment and consultancy agreements, staff handbooks and restrictive covenants.
  • Disciplinary procedures, dismissals and negotiation of settlements.
  • Discrimination and harassment issues.
  • Management of working time, holidays, employee disability, teleworking, modification of employment terms.
  • Audit of HR documentation and policies.
  • Collective negotiations and workers’ representatives consultation process.
  • Employee disputes.

International mobility

  • Secondments, expatriation and multi-jurisdiction employment.
  • International social security.
  • Immigration.

Corporate reorganisation

  • Collective redundancies.
  • Outsourcing and off-shoring (national and international transfers of undertakings).
  • HR due diligence in M&A deals.

Employee benefits and compensation

  • Pensions.
  • Remuneration policies.
  • Employee incentives schemes.

PwC Legal is ranked in Chambers and Partners Europe (Band 2) and in The Legal500 (Band 3).

"The team is always responsive, proactive and ready to support any request at short notice. I also like their attention to costs and their capacity to provide for tailor-made solutions meant to suit the specific need of the client."

The Legal 500, 2021

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Contact us

Sabrina Alvaro

Head of practice, Avocat à la Cour au Barreau de Luxembourg, PwC Legal

Tel: +352 26 48 42 35 89

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