Employment

Contacts:
Dr. Ingrid Ohmann-Sauer, Co-head of global employment practice
Barbara M. Roth, Co-head of global employment practice
Elizabeth Slattery, UK
Dominique Mendy, France
Dr. Hendrik Kornbichler, Germany
Vittorio Moresco, Italy
Anita de Jong, The Netherlands
Luis Enrique de la Villa, Spain

All over the world, laws regarding employment are subject to frequent change as governments develop and roll out new policies towards diversity, equal employment, and fair-workplace standards. Best-practice procedures regarding a range of employment issues — from unlawful discrimination to compensation arrangements for executives — are also constantly being updated.

Hogan Lovells’ Global Employment Law team draws on years of experience in advising employers about issues surrounding employment. If you need our lawyers to conduct litigation or arbitration proceedings, to negotiate with union representatives, or just to provide timely advice, you can be sure that your business interests are paramount. We aim to ensure that your workplace policies are robust and effective. Because we have employment lawyers in offices around the globe, we are uniquely situated to handle employment issues that span multiple jurisdictions for our clients with mobile and multinational work forces.

Our experience includes the following areas of employment law:

• workforce relations, including employee consultation, co-determination, and works councils
• restructurings, reductions-in-force, and redundancies
• litigation and arbitration of individual claims, class actions, or collective actions
• policies relating to equal employment and diversity
• statutory requirements for fair-workplace standards
• trade secrets and proprietary or confidential information
• the employment aspects of corporate transactions
• executive contracts, terminations, and remuneration arrangements
• management training on ‘best practices’

Awards and Rankings

• Ranked by PLC Which Lawyer? as a Top 10 "Super League" global employment practice, 2011