Employment law advice

Anne-Charlotte Serre accompanies, supports and advises her clients in all their decisions relating to employment law.

Individual employment relationships:

• Advice in the drafting of letters of recruitment and employment contracts (unlimited term/fixed term/temporary).

• Assistance in the process of obtaining residence permits for foreign employees (work permits, employee residence permits, temporary worker residence permits, new business talent passport).

• Advice and supervision in the implementation of disciplinary and redundancy procedures.

• Establishment of specific working time arrangement schemes (drafting of working time agreements, setting up and supervising flat-rate pay agreements per days worked, yearly working time arrangements, etc.)

• Management of occupational health and safety issues: workplace accidents, occupational diseases, harsh working conditions, occupational stress, occupational medicine.

Collective working relationships:

• Management of relations with staff representative bodies (elections to the Economic and Social Committee, recognition of an Economic and Social Unit, etc.)

• Assistance in the drafting and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements (employee savings-related schemes, gender equality, etc.)

• Support in the drafting of internal procedures: internal rules of procedure, codes of conduct, ethical charters, IT charters, teleworking agreements, Single Risk Assessment Document, Economic and Social Database System.

Restructurations 

• Realisation of legal due diligence in the context of company takeovers.

• Support with the execution of collective economic redundancies and job recovery plans.

Individual support of company executives and directors on departure:

• Amicable, negotiated or pre-litigious departures.

• Breaches of contract.

• Optimisation of terms and conditions of departure.

• Settlements.

• Management of non-competition clauses.

Defence and litigation

Anne-Charlotte Serre defends the interests of her clients before a range of courts and tribunals. 

• Defence at the Industrial Tribunal (Conseil de prud’hommes), at the employment chamber of the Court of Appeal (redundancy, overtime, bullying and harassment, etc.)

• Legal action before the social security tribunals (contested workplace accidents, gross misconduct disputes, contested employee permanent disability rates).

• Cases before the courts (electoral disputes, contested union representatives appointments).

Training

Anne-Charlotte Serre offers basic-level and in-depth training courses on various employment law-related themes aimed at HR and Managers. 

• Training on current legal developments in employment law.

• Theme-based training courses (employment contracts, the disciplinary power of the employer, redundancy, economic and social committee).