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Our expertise
RAPHAEL AVOCATS ASSISTS IN ALL AREAS OF EMPLOYMENT LAW • CORPORATE EMPLOYMENT LAW ON A DAILY BASIS The primary issues handled by our firm: – establishing, informing-consulting, and discontinuing staff representative bodies; – individual work relations (employment contracts, mobility, disciplinary procedures, dismissals, termination settlements); – discrimination and moral or sexual harassment; – safety, hygiene and health at the workplace (unfitness for work, CHSCT expertise); – internal procedures (internal rules, IT charter); – employee savings plans and social protection; – relations with the authorities (Labour Inspection, Direccte, Urssaf). • SUPPORTING CHANGES Raphaël Avocats offers its clients expertise in collective negotiations: NAO (Obligatory annual negotiations), mobility, gender equality, trade union rights, etc. Raphaël Avocats ensures the end-to-end handling of job preservation plans (PSE)/voluntary departure plans: drafting of economic documentation (Book II), draft agreements/unilateral document on support measures, assistance during the negotiations, expert appraisals, relations with the Dirrecte authorities. In addition, our team has developed special expertise in mergers, acquisitions, transfers, outsourcing of business, concentrations, etc.: audits (employmentrelated due diligence), transfer of employment contracts, occupational retirement (IRP) and collective status (company practices, unilateral commitments and collective agreements). Raphaël Avocats assists its clients in setting up or reworking work-time schemes: audit, termination of the existing scheme, drafting and negotiating a new agreement. Finally, our firm offers specific expertise in compensation policies (variable compensation clauses, bonuses, profitsharing, employee savings plans - PEE, PEI, Perco). • LITIGATION Raphaël Avocats handles all types of litigation at all employment law courts: Labour tribunal litigation (dismissal on personal grounds and redundancy, acknowledgement of termination, courtordered termination, violation of non-compete duty, discrimination / harassment); Collective ligitation (electoral dispute, challenge to redundancy scheme (PSE), challenges to the expert appraisals, dispute with the Urssaf collection agency...). Our team also assists its clients in criminal employment law and other risk litigation: obstruction of staff bodies, accident at work and occupational illness (inexcusable negligence), unfitness for work, undeclared work, set number of days worked per year, challenge to employer's criminal liability, moral or sexual harassment, unfair treatment.