Restructuring and labour relations

Alina Szilaghi assists with every aspect of concluding, performing and terminating collective and individual employment agreements, restructuring and reorganisation, and represents and advises employers on staff matters including disciplinary action, dismissals and terminations, severance payments and relations with trade unions, offering a full range of legal services:

• advice on compliance with employment law through legal opinions assessing and interpreting the legal framework, and help with practical issues arising day to day, including hiring procedures, concluding, amending, suspending and terminating employment contracts, performance appraisal, pay and contributions, leave, disciplinary liability, record keeping and document management;
• assisting employers in preparing and implementing reorganisation or restructuring programmes, including drafting the supporting documents, documenting changes to the organisation chart and staffing plan, drafting correspondence with trade unions and county employment agencies, drafting dismissal decisions and arranging severance payments in line with the law and collective agreements;
• assistance in relations between employers and trade unions, including advice on the representativeness of trade unions and help drafting and negotiating collective agreements and resolving collective labour disputes;
• assisting clients in labour disputes, including conciliation, mediation and arbitration, in the context of strikes, representation before the courts in employment disputes, and help enforcing judgments on pay, other entitlements or reinstatement.