Employment

When it comes to employment law, businesses need effective prevention and strong advocacy. PeliFilip specialises in offering pragmatic solutions to large corporate clients in the constantly evolving sphere of employment relationships.

We are constantly confronted with a variety of labour issues which large corporate clients need to solve in order to optimize or preserve their businesses. We assist clients across most important industries in Romania and therefore are familiar with intricacies of labour relationships in these areas. Industry knowledge as well as the exposure of our employment lawyers to other law practices enhances our ability to deliver to management teams effective advice in due time. These features make us a natural fit for complex projects where multi-sectorial experience is critical.

Our expertise includes restructuring and transaction related labour matters, mostly redeployment and/or workforce optimisation, transfer of undertakings, advising on legal matters connected to pay systems and employee benefits, development and implementation of labour policies or regulations, negotiation of collective and individual agreements, compliance matters and labour related litigations.

KEY REFERENCES 2008-2011

Advising a major automotive company in redesigning its organisational charts, assessment of the risk resulting from the transition to a manufacturing unit entirely integrated in the production system of the group, methods of achieving more work flexibility and better structuring of employment relationships from a legal perspective;
Advising a car producer on collective dismissal of over 100 employees in the context of restructuring its sales force;
Advising a major French cosmetic producer in performing individual dismissals due to decrease in sales and changes of the market structure;
Advising various companies among which top players in telecommunications or finance sectors in structuring transactions which have a transfer of undertaking component;
Advising one of the largest brewery groups in relation to reorganization of the workforce, closure of production units and outsourcing of activities;
Advising a company employing more than 3,500 employees on changing the grading and pay system as to align it to the rules of total compensation applicable at group level and achieving new objectives as to reward of work;
Advising the Romanian subsidiary of a major British corporation on assessing the options available for adapting the pay to volume fluctuations and achieve better compensation of productivity per cost centers;
Advising a major automotive company in rearranging its labour relationships with the existing unions and negotiating various amendment to the collective bargaining agreement and company’s policies as to bring them in line with the group policies and rules;
Advising a packaging company in negotiating and concluding a collective labour agreement adapted to the company’s operational needs and envisaging its restructuring objectives. Assisting the same company on amending the internal regulation as to enhance discipline and the ability to sanction employees;
Advising one of the potential German investors in the project for development of Units 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant in relation to compliance matters concerning employment, pension and social insurance system, drafting standard labour documentation, confidential and non-compete clauses;
Advising construction companies in defending their position in investigation of labour related accidents;
Representing a packaging company in a significant number of cases concerning the payment of various salary rights to former or current employees (long service allowance, overtime allowance, non-compete indemnity, bonuses, etc);
Defending clients from across industries in cases related to the annulment of the disciplinary termination of the individual labour agreements;
Representing an automotive company in litigation concerning the manner in which the collective labour agreement is being applied and rules of interpretation of unclear provisions;
Representing a financial institution in allegations of fraud against management;
Defending a pharmaceutical company in a claim envisaging the annulment of dismissal decisions due to restructuring and
Representing a steel company in preparing claims against employees for wrongdoing and negligence.