Employment

WALLESS has a highly experienced employment team, our experts have been practicing for over 20 years. Our employment and migration experts assist clients in all employment matters, including drafting and reviewing employment contracts, assistance regarding cross-border employment relations, termination of employment relations, notifications to state institutions, internal procedures and compliance, etc. WALLESS has been recognized as one of the most competent partners for handling labour disputes in pre-court Labour Dispute Commission as well as in courts. We have been involved in several complicated landmark cases. Our team excels in taxation aspects as well as in various remuneration schemes, e.g. pensions, options, executive bonuses, etc. We have extensive experience also in employment and secondment of EU and third country employees, obtaining work permits and with communication with authorities.

The department is headed by partner Toomas Taube who has practiced over two decades.

• Advised Germany-based IT company IDnow in cross-border recruitment process in Estonia
• Assisted Estonian subsidiary of HeidelbergCement Group on extensive collective redundancy
• Represented a leading Estonian agriculture company in a complex labour dispute with a former executive
• Advised and represented an employee in complex labour disputes of non-compete limitation and non-solicitation obligations
• Assisted Ampler Bikes in various local and cross-border employment matters