A company is not a fixed entity in a static environment; therefore, Raphaël Avocats offers its clients all the firm’s know-how to support them in any and all changes with efficiency and in full legal security.
Supporting changes in the company
Raphaël Avocats assists its clients in carrying out these changes, in particular:
- Collective negotiations: Job preservation schemes / voluntary departure schemes under the Employment Saving Law (LSE), GPEC agreements (employment and qualifications), statutory annual negotiations, labour-management agreements on redundancy procedures, revision procedures, etc, gender equality, trade union rights, etc.
- Redundancy schemes / voluntary departure schemes: drafting economic documents (Livre II) to be presented to staff representative bodies, draft agreements on Redundancy schemes / voluntary departure schemes, drafting information documents (Livre I) on measures of support, assistance during the negotiations, expertise and relations with the DIRRECTE authorities. .
- Mergers, acquisitions, transfers, outsourcing of business, concentration, etc.: audits prior to the event (employment-related due diligence), assessment of the impact of the change on staff representative bodies, unilateral practices and commitments as well as the collective legal status (challenge, negotiation of a substitute or adapted agreement, issues of individual benefits accrued and of equal treatment, particular aspects of profit-sharing agreements)
- Reduction and scheduling of work time: audit of the current organisation, termination of the existing scheme, drafting a new agreement and following up the negotiation (35 hour week, modulation, lump sum of work days, shift work, night work, work on Sunday)e)
- Compensation policies: auditing compensation schemes, setting up profit-sharing and employee savings schemes (PEE, PEI, Perco), drafting variable compensation clauses