Employment law

BMS’ assists French and foreign companies in their daily management of human resources

The main areas of work of our team are the following:

• Individual working relationship:

• • employment contracts, remuneration terms, work period,
• • prevention of workplace harassment and discrimination,
• • dismissal procedures based on personal or economic ground.

• Collective working relationship:

• • implementation and management of staff representative institutions,
• • negotiations with staff representatives,
• • collective dismissal procedures, strategic approach and follow up of PSE (planned redundancy scheme),
• • employee savings schemes.

• Activities connected to Corporate:

• • dealing with the transfer of employment contracts in the event of change of the employer’s legal position (sale, merger...),
• • harmonization of collective arrangements after sale or merger,
• • mergers and acquisitions, in association with corporate and tax departments:
     - social audit,
     - drafting the industrial relations clauses in sales agreements,
     - optimizing executives’ position (earn-out, golden parachutes).

• Litigation

Our team appears regularly in front of civil and administrative Courts relation with industrial disputes.

Contacts:

Manuelle Puylagarde, Partner, mpuylagarde@bms-avocats.com