Employment litigation

The Clifford Chance global employment law practice provides you with informed, confidential advice on the full range of employment issues.

Experienced employment lawyers across our global network work with clients from a wide range of industry sectors assisting not only global businesses but medium and smaller enterprises to address local, international and cross-border employment issues. We use our experience and resources to keep you up to date on developments in employment law and what they mean in practice for your business.

Key areas of employment legal advice

• Employment relationships - employment agreements and policies; consulting and secondment arrangements; the termination of contracts; confidentiality and non-compete arrangements.
• Restructuring - all aspects of restructuring and redundancy, locally and internationally.
• Employee rights and relations - advising employers on discrimination issues, and the practical implications of equal opportunities and diversity.
• Litigation - advising and representing clients in relation to all types of employment litigation, mediation and dispute resolution.
• Collective matters - advising on trade union relations, collective consultation, European and domestic works councils and employee representative bodies.
• Mergers, acquisitions and outsourcing - the employment aspects of mergers and takeovers, buyouts, outsourcings and other commercial transactions.
• Expatriation - advising clients on immigration, related taxation issues and other legal requirements that arise when sending employees to foreign countries and recruiting from abroad.
• Employee benefits and pensions - we work closely with our leading Employee Benefits and Pensions groups who advise on all areas of employee benefits, pensions, share schemes and related tax issues.

International capability and resources

Global organisations need integrated solutions to key employment issues when working across jurisdictions. We respond rapidly to deliver consistent, informed and practical advice and are accustomed to project managing cross-border projects such as mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing and offshoring arrangements. We regularly advise multi-national clients in connection with their dealings with cross-border representative bodies such as works councils.

To help you keep on top of the risks and opportunities arising from changes in the law, we track and anticipate the latest legislative proposals in all the jurisdictions that are important to your business.

Information services

We support clients with information services on the latest legislative and case law changes via online alerts, newsletters and employment law guides.

We offer access to "open" seminars on the headline industry topics, as well as bespoke training on employment law subjects.