Services include:
Individual and collective labor law:
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing of employment agreements and job descriptions of all kind including contracts with (senior) executives and specific functions such as data protection and compliance officers etc.
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing of bonus, stock options and share based incentive plans including advising on compliance with securities restrictions and corporate governance aspects.
- Providing advice on all labor law aspects such as duties and responsibilities of employers and employees (labor law compliance).
- Advice on rules relating to employee inventions.
- Providing advice on termination (agreements).
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing of employment regulations, general terms and conditions.
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing of collective labor agreements.
Public labor law, company and corporate rules and procedures:
- Advising on public labor law requirements.
- Advising on general regulations (“Betriebsordnung”).
- Advising on mass dismissal procedures.
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing of redundancy payments schemes.
- Advising on data privacy requirements (see also hereinafter practice area “Data Protection”).
- Reviews of labor law aspects in connection with corporate transactions of all kind.
- Representation in lawsuits and negotiated settlements.
Illustrative reference transactions, competencies and achievements include:
Advisor to the founders/shareholders
- Dismissal of the President of the Board of Directors during a board meeting.
Advisor to the company and/or employees
- Advised companies and recruiting agencies on legal duties and responsibilities in connection with the recruiting process (soliciting employees, data protection and privacy including insurance related questions).
- Advised employers as well as employees on various data protection and privacy duties and responsibilities regarding employment relationship aspects, the handling of personal data, including the exchange of data between insurance companies and employers.
- Advised employers as well as employees regarding the drafting of reference letters as well as in connection with the rendering of personal oral references.
- Provided numerous oral references for former team members of mine.
- Advised individuals and companies on and implementation of numerous employment agreements of all kind including termination agreements on all levels as well as agreements with senior executives.
- Provided among others as a member of the Extended Swiss Site Leadership Team at Huntsman Basel legal support to the HR department in connection with questions outside of the ordinary course of business and more often than not in an international context such as:
- mass dismissal procedures,
- employee invention entitlements,
- employee participation schedules relating to businesses that have been taken over,
- special contracts, etc.
- Advised on and implemented of various types of employment regulations.
- Based on the respective tax structure, advised on civil law aspects and implemented various incentive compensation plans of all types considering corporate governance aspects including equity based schemes and the drafting of communication materials and securities compliance requirements.
- Provided advice and assistance concerning labor law exposures in corporate transactions.
- Advised on the implementation of insider regulations.
- Advised on mass dismissal procedures.
- Drafted, negotiated, implemented and designed after signing and closing compliance structures as well as implemented and executed monitoring schemes relating to redundancy payments schemes.
Specific experience, education and training
- Attended lecture “Organization and Human Resource Management” (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel, spring term 2011).
- Regarding leadership roles experience see practice areas “General Counsel Services” and “Project and Crisis Management”.