Labour & Employment

 

The firm handles matters that cover the complete range of labor and employment issues. We assist corporate clients of all sizes to establish and implement human resource and employment policies across the entire company. We advise corporates, trade unions and individual clients on various contentious and non-contentious labor and employment issues. We represent clients in numerous labor and employment disputes before various trial and appellate courts. We have, over the years, developed sound knowledge and deep understanding and experience employment issues faced by companies, whistle-blowing and discrimination claims, enforcing and resisting post-employment restrictive covenants, collective labor and industrial disputes, redundancies and workforce restructurings, the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and off-shore outsourcing arrangements. We have also assisted both corporate clients as well as trade unions in strategically developing, negotiating and implementing their contractual and permanent labor arrangements.

 

Our expertise includes :

 

• Arbitration and Mediation

• Collective Bargaining Issues and Strike Management

• Disciplinary investigations and enquiries

• Due Diligence Exercises and Corporate Transactions

• Employment Contracts

• Employment Discrimination

• Employment Litigation (Labour and High Court litigation)

• Policy development and drafting

• Restructuring and retrenchment planning

• Pension Law and Employee Benefits