Employment
Europe Guide 2024 : France
Band 4
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+33 1 42 68 6000About
Provided by Bird & Bird
The employment department advises French and international companies as well as public service administrations, providing a full range of practical contentious and non-contentious employment law advice, in particular with respect to the following:
- Individual employee relationship issues, including drafting of employment contracts, confidentiality agreements and restrictivecovenants,
- Stock option and profit sharing plans, bonus plans, employee handbooks, codes of conduct and rules of ethics,
- Grievance, disciplinary and termination procedures,
- Restructuring and redundancies both in France and internationally,
- Employment issues related to outsourcing and offshoring,
- International mobility and expatriation issues,
- Managing the relationships with employee representative bodies, including negotiations with works councils and unions, election processes and consultation procedures with employee representatives,
- Employment aspects of corporate transactions related to mergers and acquisitions or the restructuring of companies, including due diligence and HR related representations and warranties.
Chambers Review
Bird & Bird is a well-established firm offering expertise in company reorganisations, employee litigation and social plans. Additionally well versed in collective and individual terminations, the practice boasts a strong client base hailing from the technology sector. The team is experienced in consultations with works councils.
Work Highlights
- Bird & Bird assisted PPG with the review of its industrial organisation, restructuring projects and site closure.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Bird & Bird has intellectual strength, a high level of competence, and agility in reasoning. The lawyers are also clear in their writing and make effective pleadings. It is a multidisciplinary firm."
"Bird & Bird are able to understand and solve complex situations and issues."
"They always provide relevant advice that takes the context of our company into account."
"Bird & Bird can advise me and my colleagues on the intricacies of French law in layman's terms to explain why certain advice is given. It makes it much easier to understand and digest."
"The firm has loads of knowledge about our company, and they are very pertinent in their responses. The lawyers have a very good knowledge of the area and we have excellent relations."
"Bird & Bird has intellectual strength, a high level of competence, and agility in reasoning. The lawyers are also clear in their writing and make effective pleadings. It is a multidisciplinary firm."
"Bird & Bird are able to understand and solve complex situations and issues."
"They always provide relevant advice that takes the context of our company into account."
"Bird & Bird can advise me and my colleagues on the intricacies of French law in layman's terms to explain why certain advice is given. It makes it much easier to understand and digest."
"The firm has loads of knowledge about our company, and they are very pertinent in their responses. The lawyers have a very good knowledge of the area and we have excellent relations."
Notable Practitioners
Benjamine Fiedler maintains a wide-ranging employment practice, spanning litigation, reorganisations, negotiations with trade unions and outsourcing projects.
"Benjamine Fiedler has a very high level of skill and vision. She is experienced, with analytical finesse and quick-thinking skills."
"She provides very relevant advice and greatly appreciated support. Benjamine puts herself at the level of her clients to make them understand the rule of the law and the solutions available to them."
Ranked Lawyers at
Bird & Bird
France
Industries
Provided by Bird & Bird
Aerospace & Defence
Automobile & Parts
Banks
Energy
Forestry & Paper
Healthcare
Industrial Engineering
Media
Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Retail
Software & Computer Services
Sports
Telecommunications
Transportation