Employment law

Complying with current employment legislation is an ever-present challenge for organisations. You are expected to act quickly to adapt to new regulations and cases that regularly alter the legal landscape.

Moreover, your organisation is likely developing more complex HR arrangements involving greater reliance on outsourced services, a more geographically mobile and flexible workforce and an increasingly sophisticated reward plan.

Your challenges

• advise on individual and collective employment law issues as well as projects
• ensuring that your workforce is working within the law
• handling the employment issues that arise out of new business challenges, as well as mergers and acquisitions, executive terminations and policy compliance.

How PwC can help you

We will assist you in answering the whole range of your employment questions, with particular emphasis on the following areas.

Managing legal risk:

• HR documentation, including contracts, service agreements, working regulations and handbooks (including assisting HR departments regarding daily employment law issues such as illness, holidays and overtime)
• Remuneration arrangements and bonus plans – including HR scans on compensation & benefits policies
• Discrimination issues
• Policies and procedures (accompanied by management training)
• Preparing for and assisting during inspections
• Cooperating with self-employed persons
• Terminations, including termination packages for senior executives

International employment issues:

• Tax-effective international employment documentation together with our HRS tax colleagues
• Applicable (mandatory) labour law rules
• Global and regional employment companies
• Assignee terminations

Restructuring:

• Outsourcing and off-shoring – transfers of undertakings
• Due diligence projects
• Shared service centres
• Corporate reorganisations – individual and collective dismissals
• Cross-border redundancy exercises