Activities
We offer qualified advice in the field of labour law (employed and self-employed), trade union law and social security law.
Our main focus is on companies (including small and medium-sized enterprises, financial intermediaries and banks, and companies belonging to multinational groups), but we have also gained extensive experience in assisting managers, directors, professionals and self-employed persons in general. We have also assisted public bodies in litigation on several occasions.
Our services range from day-to-day labour law consultancy to assistance in extraordinary transactions (such as mergers, demergers and company transfers in general), from assistance in social security matters to the structuring of executive or self-employed work assignments, from assistance in company reorganisations and restructurings to the management of labour relations; last but not least, we assist our clients in labour and social security litigation at all levels of justice, up to the Court of Cassation.
The following is a description of our main activities.
Employment
- Drafting of opinions and memoranda.
- Drafting of employment contracts and special agreements (non-competition agreements, clauses on minimum guaranteed duration of the employment relationship, agreements on forms of variable remuneration, etc.).
- Structuring and drafting of management employment contracts.
- Assistance in the managing of employment relationships (transfers and changes of job, disciplinary procedures, dismissals, settlements and conciliations in protected venue, etc.).
- Advice on working abroad.
- Drafting of acts aimed at organising and regulating relations with personnel (company regulations, policies, disciplinary codes, etc.).
- Advice and assistance on labour law in the structuring and implementation of complex operations (reorganisations and restructuring, transfers and collective redundancies, acquisitions, incorporations and demergers, transfers of business and outsourcing).
- Drafting of due diligence
Trade Union
- Assistance in trade union information and consultation procedures at local and ministerial level (procedures pursuant to Article 47 of Law 428/90 in the context of company transfers, procedures pursuant to Articles 4 and 24 of Law 223/91 in the context of collective redundancies, consultation procedures in the context of applications for ordinary and extraordinary redundancy payments, etc.).
- Assistance in the negotiation and drafting of defensive solidarity
- Assistance in the negotiation and drafting of company collective agreements.
Social security and safety at work
- Advice on social security
- Assistance to companies and professionals in disputes against social security institutions (disputes relating to the employer's contribution obligations, also in relation to joint and several liability in contracts, disputes arising from the challenge of measures of official registration in social security management, etc.).
- Advice and assistance in solving problems relating to safety at work (e.g. advice on drafting the delegation of functions under Article 16 TUSL).
Agency, Self-employment and Management
- Assistance in the establishment, management and termination of working relationships with commercial agents and, in general, with self-employed collaborators and professionals.
- Drafting of self-employment contracts, mandates and agreements relating to corporate governance
Contracts and Outsourcing
- Advice on the drafting of contracts with regard to labour aspects.
- Assistance in the outsourcing of activities and segments of the company's production cycle.
Litigation and out-of-court settlement of disputes
- Assistance in the out-of-court settlement of disputes.
- Assistance in labour disputes before the ordinary judicial authorities at all levels of judgement (Courts, Courts of Appeal, Court of Cassation), throughout the country.
Administrative offences and sanctions
- Assistance to companies in inspections and administrative appeals against inspection reports or sanctions.