About
Provided by SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER Rechtsanwälte GmbH
With our expertise in employment law as well as social law, also including relevant income tax law the sms.law employment team covers all areas of this wide-ranging and complex legal area. For more detailed information and the full range of services, please visit our website.
Services
- Collective and individual employment law
- Operational restructuring and business transitions
- justification and termination of employment
- Manager employment contracts and variable compensation models for executives
- Design and adaptation of working time models
- Company pension schemes and pension fund law
- Privacy-labor
- Internal investigations in companies, advice on the prevention, detection and legal assessment of employee misconduct including whistleblowing
- Design and amendment of work agreements
- Collective agreement special subjects
- Cross-border personnel deployment, immigration
- Wage and social dumping
- Representation in proceedings before national and international courts as well as administrative authorities
Chambers Review
Held in high esteem as one of Austria's leading employment law firms, SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER advises prestigious companies as well as executive-level individuals from sectors including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and transportation on all relevant labour law issues. The team led by excellent practitioner Georg Schima is active in both advisory and disputes, covering working time arrangements, salary system implementation and business transfers as well as relocations and terminations. Additionally, the law firm houses strong capabilities in restructuring and insolvency-related mandates, working from home regulations and parental leave disputes as well as cross-border employee transfers. While mostly active for employers, SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER also acts for employees and works councils.
Work Highlights
- SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER advised Johnson & Johnson an all employment law matters in Austria, recently regarding incentive and pension schemes and court proceedings regarding termination of employment.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team's advice is characterised by a very high professional level but at the same time practical solutions at all times. Legally difficult enquiries are resolved promptly and creatively."
"SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER provides very good support with clear suggestions for action."
"The team is characterised by a practical way of working and provides quick and clear responses to all questions raised."
"SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER offers the professionalism of a large law firm coupled with the flexibility and personal commitment of a boutique law firm."
"The team's advice is characterised by a very high professional level but at the same time practical solutions at all times. Legally difficult enquiries are resolved promptly and creatively."
"SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER provides very good support with clear suggestions for action."
"The team is characterised by a practical way of working and provides quick and clear responses to all questions raised."
"SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER offers the professionalism of a large law firm coupled with the flexibility and personal commitment of a boutique law firm."
Notable Practitioners
Georg Schima is one of Austria's leading employment law practitioners, regularly advising prestigious clients on contentious dismissals and discrimination claims by employees, remuneration policies as well as works council negotiations. While mostly active for employers, he also enjoys a high reputation among CEOs, such as for advising them on resignations and financial claims issues.
"Georg Schima is very knowledgeable and experienced and he often goes the extra mile. While being detail-oriented, he still keeps the big picture in mind."
"Georg Schima is well known for his expertise in and passion for complex legal matters."
Birgit Vogt-Majarek enters the rankings on the basis of excellent client feedback and activity levels as well as an increased market profile. She is joint head of the employment and labour practice at SCHIMA MAYER STARLINGER and assists Austrian and international clients with matters including restructurings, remuneration and company pension schemes and terminations. She frequently represents employers in connected litigation.
"She provides excellent support, very good knowledge, openness and a high level of experience."
"She offers good accessibility and economic perspective."
"Birgit Vogt-Majarek's service is fast and precise."
"She is always enthusiastic and committed about her work."
"A real competitive advantage of Birgit Vogt-Majarek is that, in addition to employment law, she also has substantial expertise in corporate and commercial law, so you get a well-rounded full service from a single source."