Employment: Domestic

Our Employment practice is highly acclaimed by peers and clients. Possessing advisory/transactional and disputes capabilities, our lawyers handle all aspects of employment, industrial relations and work-health and safety matters, and regularly advise on cross-border employment arrangements and matters.

On the advisory/transactional front, we advise on all aspects of employment relationships, share options, pension and incentive schemes, collective bargaining and industrial relations, statutory welfare and benefits, staff severance and retrenchment management; outsourcing arrangements; and the transfer or integration of workforce resulting from mergers and acquisitions and takeovers.

On the disputes front, the team regularly handles all forms of employment disputes, including wrongful dismissals; the enforcement of restrictive covenants and post-termination restraints; disciplinary proceedings; work-health safety incidents and injury compensation claims; and investigating employee wrongdoing, breach of fiduciary duties and white-collar offences.