Employment Law

Anticipate, dialogue, transform.

Axipiter's Employment Law team supports national and international companies and groups on all aspects of employment law, both in advisory and litigation matters. Our pragmatic approach secures your transformations and strengthens your social performance. Alongside our Corporate/M&A teams, we anticipate the social impacts of your strategic operations.

Individual relations

Collective relations

Restructuring

Litigation

Individual relations

Individualized support

From contract drafting to managing sensitive departures, we secure your employer-employee relations with pragmatism and responsiveness.

Employment contracts

  • Permanent & fixed-term contracts, corporate mandates
  • Non-compete clauses
  • Variability clauses
  • Mobility clauses

Executive status

  • Combining corporate mandate / employment contract
  • Compensation & packages
  • Golden parachutes
  • Executive social protection

International mobility

  • Expatriation & secondment
  • Professional immigration
  • International contracts
  • International social security

Sensitive departures

  • Negotiation of settlement agreements
  • Individual mutual termination
  • Reputational risk management
  • Protection of company interests
Collective relations

Social dialogue & negotiation

Structuring and facilitating social dialogue, negotiating collective agreements and regulatory compliance.

Employee representatives & elections

Setting up and managing works councils, professional elections, pre-electoral protocols

Collective bargaining

Working time agreements, remote work, profit-sharing, gender equality index

Working time

Fixed-day agreements, on-call duty, night work, overtime

Equality & quality of work life

Professional equality, quality of life at work, psychosocial risk prevention

Ethics alert

Whistleblower systems, internal investigations, compliance

Health & safety

Hygiene, health, safety, risk assessment documents, managing work restrictions

Restructuring & transfers

Supporting transformations

Legal and social management of your restructuring, with close coordination (if necessary) with Corporate and M&A teams to secure complex operations.

Economic layoffs

Job protection plans, voluntary departure plans, collective mutual terminations

Social aspects of M&A transactions

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (carve-outs), business transfers: employment due diligence, employee representative (CSE) information/consultation, social timelines, harmonization of collective employment terms

Full-service coordination

Our coordinated approach between employment law, corporate and M&A ensures legal consistency and secures your transformation operations.

  • Anticipation of social impacts during M&A phase
  • Integrated calendars (closing / information-consultation)
  • Management of social warranties in SPA
Litigation

Defense & representation

Litigation and prelitigation

Representation in individual and collective matters before labour courts, administrative courts (collective redundancy plans, protected employees) and courts of appeal, with comprehensive contentious and pre-contentious strategy support

Social security

Workplace accident/occupational disease litigation, social security contributions, audits and reassessments, challenges before social courts

Criminal labor law

Criminal defense for executives and companies (obstruction offenses, health and safety violations, undeclared work)

Labour Inspection Authority

Support and representation during inspections and investigations, handling observations and formal notices

Department Leaders

Your dedicated team

Secure your social challenges

Our employment law experts support you daily to anticipate risks and optimize your social performance.