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Employment & Pensions

Our Employment Law team assists and represents Monegasque employers - both businesses and private individuals - in litigation, pre litigation and advisory matters, to design and implement labour relations management strategies. We also assist our clients assess their options for any dismissals, redundancy plans and negotiated settlements, to draft employment contracts that are tailored to the requirements of their business, to put together complex compensation and benefits packages, to address non-compete and non-solicitation issues, and more generally all documentation in relation to employment individual relationships. 

Our team also assists employers in the implementation of social dialogue with staff representatives and trade unions, in collective negotiations and drafting collective agreements, and more generally, all documentation in relation to employment collective relationships.

Finally, our team assists new companies wishing to set up and expand in the Principality of Monaco with their employment related needs (registering with social security organisms, hiring employees, assisting with contractual transfers of employment contracts), as well as companies and institutions already present in Monaco with the implementation of employment restructuring, particularly during mergers, acquisitions, sales, etc. generating job transfers or collective (or individual) redundancies with (or without) voluntary redundancy plans.

 Our fields of expertise include:

  • Employment audits (sale or acquisition)
  • Employment contracts & remuneration packages
  • Litigation, prelitigation & settlements: risk assessment & crisis management
  • Restructuring & redundancy plans
  • Employees worldwide mobility & remote working
  • Staff representatives and unions challenges
  • Personal data protection
  • Setup  and assistance for new employers (institutions, companies, individuals, shipowners, etc.)
  • Law of seafarers
  • Household staff

 

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Crisis management & risk assessment
We help employers to assess and manage risks and criminal proceedings that may arise in the course of working relations.Our expertise covers the follo
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Employees worldwide mobility & installation assistance for employers (companies and individuals)
Business in many sectors of Monaco’s economy is highly international, and this is reflected in the relations maintained with foreign entities, p
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Employment audits
We have a specialized team that carries out social audits for company sale and/or acquisitions with the firm’s other departments, ensuring our c
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Employment contracts & remuneration packages
In a context marked by the need for employment law to adapt to the operational constraints faced by businesses, our Employment Law team advises and as
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Household staff
When any private individual takes on a cleaner, carer, nanny, gardener, or any other domestic staff, they become an employer. This means dealing with
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Litigation, prelitigation & settlements: crisis management & risk assessment
The risks posed by employment disputes can have a major impact on the life of a business and working relations more generally. Employment litigation r
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Personal data protection
Digital technology is now omnipresent in the workplace, creating new challenges for businesses. These include balancing the privacy of employees with
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Restructuring & Redundancy Plans
In a constantly changing economy, Monegasque businesses must regularly adapt in order to stay competitive. In many cases, this means corporate restruc
Seafarers' law
We help shipowners to manage their crews, given the specific features of Monegasque maritime law and the Monegasque Code of the Sea, as well as its hi
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Staff representatives and unions challenges
When it comes to collective labour relations, the obligations for businesses can be difficult to fathom and implement on a day-to-day basis.Our team h

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