Fasken, Employment | Chambers Global Profile

About

Provided by Fasken

Appropriately navigating the labour, employment, and human rights landscapes is essential to attracting, retaining, and motivating your employees and by extension successfully maintaining and developing your business.

Our Labour, Employment & Human Rights (LEHR) lawyers work with clients to provide proactive, pragmatic and cost-effective advice. Whether you need help to conclude innovative collective agreements or create risk management and compliance programs, we have the in-depth knowledge and experience required. In the event disputes arise, we will help you defuse tension among stakeholders and skillfully represent your interests in court, before tribunals or at arbitration.

In addition to our extensive Canadian presence and experience, we boast highly qualified and detailed-oriented LEHR lawyers in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as connections to experts around the world, which enables us to help employers from all facets of industry and government, wherever they operate.

At Fasken, we act for numerous prominent foreign corporations, providing specialized advice and representation in adapting their human resources strategies to the Canadian and South African environments.

Chambers Review

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Employment - South Africa

Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Fasken is particularly noted for providing employment advice to clients in the mining and natural resources industries, with further activity in the energy and manufacturing sectors. The team is well recognised for its impressive work in pensions and benefits and related litigation, with extensive experience in collective bargaining, industrial action and dismissals. The firm also provides counsel on issues involving employee discipline and health and safety risks. Furthermore, it is well versed in handling employment due diligence as well as the employment and labour repercussions of M&A and corporate restructuring.

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Work Highlights

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Fasken represented Lixil Africa in an unfair retrenchment case brought against the firm by AMCU.

Strengths

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Fasken has quick turnaround times.

Employment respondent
Global

Fasken's team offers sound and professional advice to clients.

Employment respondent
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They keep clients informed and updated on the process. They respond very well to questions and ideas and give a lot of advice on the potential risks and benefits.

Employment respondent
Global

Fasken has quick turnaround times.

Employment respondent
Global

Fasken's team offers sound and professional advice to clients.

Employment respondent
Global

They keep clients informed and updated on the process. They respond very well to questions and ideas and give a lot of advice on the potential risks and benefits.

Employment respondent
Global

Notable Practitioners

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Ludwig Frahm-Arp

Band 2

Ludwig Frahm-Arp provides guidance to his clients on issues such as industrial action, as well as acting on labour relations and unfair labour practices disputes. He regularly acts for clients in the mining sector.

Ludwig has the ability to get straight to the solution in particular in environment where you have to carefully balance the opposing interests of the various parties.

Ludwig Frahm-Arp is always very responsive and provides a high level of excellent service.

The reason I work with him is that I know I will get quality work.

I have the utmost respect and confidence in him. I also enjoy his demeanor and his ability to put clients at ease when we have major issues.

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Paul Fouché

Band 4

Paul Fouché provides contentious and advisory counsel to his employer clients on labour relationships and industrial action, dismissals and workplace health and safety. He also provides guidance on the employment aspects of restructurings and retrenchments.

Paul Fouché always comes up with strategies on different topics. He is very experienced.

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Rosemary Hunter

Band 4

Rosemary Hunter is a well known practitioner with a solid reputation for assisting clients with pensions and benefits mandates.

Rosemary Hunter is an authority in her field.

There are few people who know as much as her about pensions matters. She is a great lawyer.

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Neil Searle

Up and Coming

Neil Searle has a recognised activity in the fields of employment and labour relations. Clients often call upon him for his experience in employment litigation, including unfair dismissal cases.

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