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Labour
Our Employment Law team advises, assists and represents clients on all aspects of employment law, both in advisory matters and litigation, continually expanding this practice to address the key issues our clients face.

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Labour

Our Employment Law team advises, assists and represents clients on all aspects of employment law, both in advisory matters and litigation, continually expanding this practice to address the key issues our clients face.

At FBT Avocats SA, we help clients navigate complex employment regulations and leverage them as tools for growth. The specificity and constant evolution of employment law require the intervention of a responsive team capable of handling all related matters, particularly negotiations with trade unions.

With nearly 30 years of experience, our seasoned specialists maintain close relationships with the administration authorities and the judiciary. They have an in-depth understanding of the legal and jurisdictional, political, local and economic context. For each matter, the most experienced employment law specialists are mobilised to address the often complex, sensitive and challenging issues our clients face in their professional activities. Our lawyers actively and successfully manage administrative, civil and criminal proceedings.

With our extensive experience, we provide strategic advice to leading clients across diverse sectors, including banking, finance, insurance, transport and luxury industries.

The labour law group advises, assists and represents business enterprises and entrepreneurs, both domestically and internationally, in the following areas:

Individual litigation before labour tribunals
Collective litigation before collective law tribunals
Follow-up of all problematic situations with employees of the enterprise (pre-litigation management)
Review of all contractual and regulatory documentation of the enterprise related to labour relations;
Negotiations related to the conclusion or renewal of collective labour agreements
Company restructuring, collective redundancies, severance schemes
Management of work contract transfers within the framework of a total or partial transfer of the enterprise
Management of contractual documentation in the event of a relocation of the enterprise to Switzerland
Obtention and/or renewal of work permits for key personnel of the enterprise
Intra-group transfer of the company’s executives
Litigation against supervisory authorities regarding public labour law provisions
Obtention of authorizations for temporary employment and personnel placement service

Publications

No jab, no job.

20 July 2021/in Publications Labour and social insurance, Litigation and Arbitration Olivia de Weck, Serge Fasel 2021 Groupe contentieux, Groupe droit du travail, Publications /by fcordey

Au cours des vingt dernières années, le droit de la responsabilité civile médicale s’est vu profondément marqué de part et d’autre de la frontière franco-suisse par la volonté des législateurs et des juges d’offrir une protection toujours plus efficace aux patients contre les aléas thérapeutiques et l’erreur humaine.

Licenciement économique et travailleurs seniors

8 April 2020/in Conferences Labour and social insurance Serge Fasel 2020 Groupe droit du travail, Publications /by Helder Carvalho

Les travailleurs seniors bénéficient-ils d’une protection particulière ? L’énumération prévue à l’art. 336 CO – qui concrétise avant tout l’interdiction générale de l’abus de droit et en aménage les conséquences juridiques pour le contrat de travail – n’est pas exhaustive…