Haya Ehrman

Labour & Employment Law

Class Actions

Labour & Employment Litigation

Haya Ehrman is a partner in the firm’s labour and employment practice group. She advises Israeli and international clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employee benefits and executive compensation.

Her practice focuses on ongoing advice to employers on employment relations, including recruitment, employment terms and conditions, compensation and retirement arrangements, HR policies, workplace equality and sexual harassment prevention, and employment terminations. She also advises employers operating under collective bargaining agreements on the negotiation, drafting and interpretation of such agreements and on managing collective employment relationships.

Haya regularly advises on workforce aspects of restructurings, privatisations, reorganisations and downsizing initiatives in both the private and public sectors, including labour disputes, strikes and negotiations with employee representatives. She also drafts and negotiates executive employment agreements, separation agreements, compensation arrangements, confidentiality and non-competition agreements, and consultancy agreements.

Her experience includes advising on pension and social security matters, representing pension funds in litigation proceedings and advising on labour law aspects of government tenders and work involving public authorities. She also advises on employment aspects of international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, conducting employment due diligence and preparing employment agreements and retention arrangements following transactions. Haya represents clients in litigation before courts and tribunals, as well as in arbitration and mediation, and provides legal opinions to international clients and global law firms on Israeli employment law.

Prior to joining the firm, Haya was a partner at Law Offices of M. Passy and Associates (1998–2008), a boutique firm specialising in labour law and employment relations. She completed her legal internship at Gilat-Knoller and Associates (1996–1997), working on employment and commercial law matters, and previously served as a pre-intern in the chambers of Judge Edna Beckenstein at the Tel Aviv District Court (1995–1996), where she assisted in drafting legal opinions in a white-collar criminal case.

Bar Ilan University, Israel

LL.B

1996