Employment lawyer in Romania

Alina Szilaghi assists clients from many sectors with both local and cross-border employment issues, taking a commercial approach that helps clients minimise risks and make the most of the opportunities created by changes in this area of law. The office’s experience in employment law and employee benefits ranges from advising management teams to drafting and negotiating individual and collective employment agreements and management contracts, and assisting on employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, secondment of executives, employee benefits and pensions, redundancy programmes and voluntary retirement schemes.

The practice also covers downsizing, transfers of employees, restructuring projects and employment disputes, and drafting internal rules and policies for private entities and public authorities. Alina Szilaghi has experience in contentious and non-contentious employment law and works closely with clients to understand the causes of employment problems in their organisation and recommend strategies to resolve them.

For employers

Drafting and amending individual and collective employment agreements, with particular attention to clauses that protect the employer’s interests;

Drafting and amending internal rules, rules of organisation and operation, and job descriptions;

Drafting orders and decisions on termination of employment, secondment and so on;

Legal opinions on any employment law issue, including labour disputes;

Assistance and representation in employment disputes, including disputes over workplace accidents;

Representation before the Labour Inspectorate (ITM) and other authorities;

Assistance with staff restructuring following transactions, mergers and demergers, reorganisations and collective redundancies;

Drafting secondment agreements for employees seconded when services are outsourced;

Assistance in negotiating termination agreements with dismissed employees;

Disputes over an employee’s liability for breach of confidentiality, damage caused to the employer, or repayment of sums received without basis.

For employees

Taking part in negotiations to conclude or amend the employment contract;

Challenging disciplinary sanctions;

Assistance before disciplinary committees;

Challenging the disciplinary committee’s decision;

Challenging unfair dismissal;

Recovering unpaid pay;

Assistance and representation in employment disputes, including disputes over workplace accidents;

Challenging decisions of the Labour Inspectorate’s inspection bodies;

Disputes over pay, allowances and other financial employment claims;

Employment claims: ordering the employer to repay sums withheld from pay, to compensate the employee’s loss, or to reinstate the employee in their former position.