Labor law and social security law, multi-disciplinary support for companies.
The excellence of our support is based on a detailed understanding of the specificities of labor law and social protection law, coupled with a personalized approach that takes into account the unique challenges of each company. Our solutions, developed using a methodology acquired with leading law firms, guarantee results that are precise, responsive and innovative. Versant Avocats operates throughout mainland France and overseas for French and international clients, working to ensure the success of your projects and the defense of your interests.
Our expertise
01 - Individual labor relations
Preparing to hire a French or foreign employee and determining the type of employment contract (permanent, fixed-term, temporary...)
Assistance in drafting employment contracts and complex clauses (fixed rate days, variable remuneration, non-competition)
Advice on managing relations with senior executives and corporate officers (combining employment contracts with corporate office, drafting contracts, delegating powers, negotiating departures, etc.).
Help in implementing the company's HR policy on a day-to-day basis
Moral and sexual harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, employee privacy. Set up an internal investigation in the event of harassment, and provide support for procedures initiated before the Défenseur des droits.
Psychosocial risk management
Absenteeism management
Management of work-related accidents and illnesses
International mobility: setting up and managing expatriate situations
Management of subcontracting and staffing situations
Determination of strategy and formalization of termination or pre-termination files (disciplinary law, dismissal, contractual termination, etc.)
Management and support for individual disputes
02 - Collective labor relations
Organization and organization of working hours: assistance in defining the appropriate system to meet the company's needs; support in implementing the system.
Assistance and support in preparing and conducting company-wide negotiations (wage negotiations, professional equality, employment of seniors, etc.).
Assistance in drafting and interpreting collective agreements
Managing collective conflicts
Defending companies before the courts in collective disputes
03 - Social audits / Compliance
Acquisition due diligence
Vendor due diligence
Overview of employment contracts, social security contributions, payroll practices, working hours, insurance commitments, supplementary health insurance, provident and welfare schemes, occupational accidents and illnesses.
Compliance with the provisions of the Sapin 2 law (whistleblowing and corruption prevention measures)
Setting up a CSR approach, drawing up and implementing ethical charters
Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): mapping and auditing processing operations, conducting an impact study, bringing processing operations into compliance, amending contracts and internal policies, formalizing compliance procedures, raising awareness and training teams in respecting and properly managing personal data...
04 - Company transfer
Support in the various stages of transformation projects, from conception to implementation (mergers, demergers, acquisitions, disposals, reorganizations, modifications and transfers of activity, changes in public/private status).
Drafting of information and consultation documents for employee representative bodies
Assistance in conducting the information and consultation procedure
Defining the negotiation timetable and strategy
Support in harmonization negotiations concerning substitution or anticipation agreements
Management of litigation linked to company transfers (litigation initiated by trade unions or the CSE, individual or collective litigation on the transfer of employment contracts, collective status, remuneration, professional equality, etc.).
05 - Professional elections
Assistance in setting up employee representative bodies (Social and Economic Committee, local representatives, Works Council and Group Committee), in particular:
- Determining the number and scope of separate establishments
- Drafting of the pre-electoral agreement and assistance during the invitation and negotiation phase of the agreement.
- Support for companies in setting up professional elections, and drafting of all legal documentation
Assistance and representation in disputes concerning professional elections
06 - Industrial accidents, occupational illness, incapacity and inexcusable fault
Support for companies in the event of a workplace accident.
Assisting companies with occupational disease recognition procedures
Management of individual procedures leading to recognition of unfitness for work
Assistance and representation of companies in proceedings for recognition of inexcusable fault
Challenging workers' compensation rates
07 - Criminal labor law
Preventing criminal risk in the workplace
Setting up and managing delegations of authority to secure the situation of individual managers
Defense of the legal entity and its directors during labor inspection or police investigations
Defense of legal entities and their directors during judicial investigations
Defending legal entities and their directors in criminal proceedings
Defense and support in the event of obstruction offenses
Training managers and supervisory staff to manage criminal risk in the workplace
Training managers and supervisory staff to deal with serious workplace accidents (giving rise to prosecution for unintentional injury or manslaughter)
Defense of the company's interests in the event of an offence committed against it by an employee or former employee (breach of trust, theft, etc.).
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