Labour Law

Focus on understanding the company in order to propose the best adapted solutions.

Every day, BMHAVOCATS supports medium and large size, French and foreign companies operating in a wide range of sectors. Creation, establishment, development, restructuring: BMHAVOCATS intervenes in all the operations that punctuate the lives of companies. Through its knowledge of the company and its business sector, more than legal expertise, BMHAVOCATS offers pragmatic solutions that are a valuable aid in decision making.

When a company is part of a group we act as a liaison with the parent company, in French, English or German.

BMHAVOCATS regularly organises training sessions that provide valuable opportunities to exchange views. We maintain links with other experts (chartered accountants, payroll managers, consultants on psycho-social risks, specialised recruiters) as well as with foreign law firms.

Each member of the team is devoted exclusively to labour law in an advisory capacity as well as in litigation: two mutually enriching practices.

OUR EXPERTISE REGROUP

Advice in individual labour law
(drafting of labour contracts, follow-up of disciplinary proceedings, transactions, proceedings for incapacity),
Advice in collective labour law
(working time, relations with employee-representative institutions, collective agreement projects, etc.)
Advice
concerning professional risks (risk prevention, management of accidents at work, occupational illnesses and psycho-social risks)
Advice
concerning URSSAF reassessments
Advice on the employment status
of senior managers (unemployment insurance, concurrent holding of a corporate office and an employment contract) and their criminal liability

Management of collective dismissals
on economic grounds (drafting of ‘plans de sauvegarde de l’emploi’ (job protection schemes), support to management in relations with personnel representatives)
Support to companies
in the context of transfers or acquisitions businesses (drafting of audit reports, recommendations on measures to reduce risks)
Support to companies
in labour court litigation and mediation, as well as in disputes involving the national health insurance system (sécurité sociale)
Advice in managing
secondments/expatriations and the provisioning of employees

FIELDS OF INTERVENTION

Mass food and non-food retail

Automotive services

IT

Pharmaceutical laboratories

Metal, plastics and recycling, chemical industries

Luxury

Aeronautics

Banking and finance

New energies

Construction

Eco-tourism

Manufacturing of domestic appliances, machines-tools

RECENT MISSIONS

France: Support to an American group in its project to close an industrial site: management of relations with personnel representatives and DIRECCTE, drafting of a job protection scheme, reporting to the German parent company, follow-up of reclassification and dismissal procedures

France: Relocation of a German group establishment

France/Germany: Acquisition of an IT services company by a German group

France: Implementation of a Social and Economic Committee

France: Assistance to a company in its amicable and litigious appeals of an URSSAF reassessment

DISTINCTIONS

Classification Legal 500 Paris 2016/2017

in “Labor Law”

Classification Legal 500 EMEA 2018

in Labor Law”

Leaders League

Top Law Firms in France :
– Reorganisation, Restructuring, Redundancy Plans & Collective Dispute
– Collective Disputes
– M&A Labor Law Issues
– Social Security