TRABAJO Y EMPLEO

Desde la redacción de contratos de contratación, hasta la resolución de litigios relacionados con una relación de trabajo, ofrecemos un asesoramiento receptivo en todos
los aspectos del derecho laboral y del empleo. Representamos a clientes en procedimientos legales, incluidos litigios laborales, acuerdos de reclamaciones, la aplicación de obligaciones de no competencia y la protección de información confidencial. También asesoramos activamente a nuestros clientes sobre las mejores prácticas en la gestión de recursos humanos. Nuestros

Recent Representative Matters:

• Act as the sole external legal advisor to the world’s second largest human resources provider and temporary staffing firm, and a Fortune Global 500 company in the Middle East including comprehensive regulatory, contentious, and non-contentious employment advice to the client.  Recent contentious representations including advising the client on an internal investigation stemming from employee complaints as well as the termination of senior members of the company
• Provide ongoing day-to-day advice to a German multinational engineering and technology conglomerate on a variety of HR matters concerning their employees based in Dubai, as well as in KSA and Qatar. Topics recently advised on have included recruitment and employment contracts, disciplinary measures, termination and retirement
• Assisted a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods heavyweight, a Top10 in the global FMCG market, with drafting an employee handbook for its staff across the GCC, covering the necessary grounds to enable well-defined employer/employee relations, including pay and benefit schemes, information about different types of leave, rules on confidential information handling, enhanced anti-discrimination provisions, as well as conduct policies for sexual harassment, and grounds for dismissal and due process
• Represented the Dubai subsidiary of a publicly traded Japanese trading company in the termination of the company’s chief marketing officer.  Represented the company and managed the subsequent litigation stemming from the termination with a 5 million dirham value
• Represented the UAE subsidiary of a publicly traded company in Hong Kong on the termination of its general counsel.  Managed multiple legal proceedings including a criminal complaint for theft of company property and defense of the company in a 1.8 million dirham labor claim.  We secured a dismissal of the labor claim on a procedural basis including an order from the court that the plaintiff reimburse the defendant for legal fees and court costs
• Represented the UAE subsidiary of a stock listed German group in the termination of the group’s regional chief executive officer
• Handling in parallel of more than 200 labor disputes involving foreign or foreign-owned contractors