Employment law

The Employment team advises French and foreign companies of all sizes operating in highly technological and innovative sectors.

The employment team advises on labour law and criminal labour law as well as individual and collective litigation (individual and collective relations, occupational risks and work-related stress, strategic reorganisations and restructurings, and various pre-litigation and litigation matters).

Its strength lies in its ability to revisit and adapt these issues to companies whose innovative nature stems from the technologies they develop, such as on-chain finance, AI and deeptech.

The firms of the sector generally have the ambition to change the world of traditional work. Artificial Intelligence is one of the most striking examples of this evolution, given its impact on employment law, from the recruitment stage through to the termination of the employment relationship itself.

Accordingly, d&a partners advises and assists its clients on all traditional employment law matters relating to the entering into, performance and termination of employment contracts, as well as on emerging issues, such as the use of AI in the workplace and the termination of employment contracts in the age of artificial intelligence.

The tailor-made support offered by the d&a partners Employment department is reflected in a very close relationship with its clients, which must balance their innovative expectations with the legal and regulatory obligations in employment matters.In this context, the Social Law team regularly provides tailored support to clients in the form of coaching and training.

employment contracts

remuneration package

incentives for managers and employees

disciplinary law

Professional risks and hardship at work

staff representatives

full-remote

collective bargaining

reorganizations and strategic restructurings

social audits

negotiations of executive and senior executive departures

pre-litigation and litigation

Individual relations

d&a partners Employment department assists its clients throughout the life of their employees’ employment contracts, whether for assignments in France or abroad (recruitment offers and employment contracts, secondment, assignment, expatriation, Employer of Record – EOR).

In recent years, d&a partners has also had to be creative in the area of remuneration systems (remuneration paid in crypto-assets/token-based incentive arrangements).

d&a partners Employment team also assists its clients in matters of disciplinary law and employee departures (redundancies, contractual terminations, termination of employment, judicial terminations), which requires a certain creativity and tailor-made support.

Collective relations

d&a partners assists its clients in their relations with existing staff representatives, not only in the context of their establishment, but also in their day-to-day relations.

Given the highly innovative and technical sectors in which its clients operate and the specific employee population of its clients, d&a partners has to deal with new situations requiring a certain adaptability and therefore the development of its own internal procedures (internal regulations, teleworking charter due in particular to the increased development among its clients of full remote working, protection of personal data, etc.).

The Employment practice also advises and assists its clients in collective bargaining (organisation of working hours, specific agreements, mandatory negotiations, collective severance and mobility agreements, collective performance agreements, etc.,) in the face of growing companies in terms of employee numbers.

Finally, d&a partners assists its clients in their relations with the Labour Administration, which can be complex given the specific nature of the sectors in which they operate.

Strategic reorganisations and restructurings

d&a partners is frequently involved in reorganisations and strategic restructurings.

The Employment team assists its clients, alongside the Corporate team, in the conduct of various operations (acquisitions, mergers, transfers of activities, site closures, etc.) in order to assist its clients with the resulting social consequences (transfer of personnel, collective and individual redundancies).

The Social department also carries out social audits (acquisition, merger, transfer and compliance audits).

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