All cases: Labour and Employment
Consulting
- Developing a motivational program for the top management of a catering company by structuring it at the level of a foreign holding company.
- Developing a motivational program for the top management of a catering company by structuring it at the level of Russian group companies.
- Defending the interests of an employer in a dispute with the general director of a company contesting dismissal due to the director’s powers being terminated by resolution of the general meeting of participants.
- Advising a foreign participant in a Russian company on the procedure for staff reduction in order to optimize the costs of maintaining the Russian business unit.
- Advising the foreign participant of the Russian entity and developing local regulations reflecting the global policies of the international group of companies in a manner consistent with Russian law while at the same time allowing the global business policies to apply to the Russian entity as fully as possible.
- Developing employment contracts between cyber-athletes and the club in which they take part in the competitions.
- Defending the interests of a foreign company in a labor dispute with employees actually working remotely in Russia.
- Advising a public company operating in the agricultural sector (with foreign participation) in connection with staff reductions, drafting of documents, negotiations with employees, and successful representation of the company’s interests in court in connection with a workers’ reinstatement claim.
- Representing a public company of an AgroHolding (with foreign participation) in connection with a mass transfer of employees to another region, developing a strategy.
- Advising a Russian subsidiary of a foreign company on staff reductions in connection with the liquidation of a branch, including choosing the best method for laying off employees, developing documentation, negotiating with employees and resolving individual issues.
- Advising a Russian subsidiary of a foreign company on development of employment documentation required to conduct business in Russia: drafting local regulatory acts, developing an employment agreement and other personnel documents.
- Developing a motivational program for executives, negotiating terms with the employer and employees, and drafting appropriate local regulations for the company.
- Advising an international bank in the Russian Federation in connection with the reduction and dismissal of personnel, negotiating with employees, compliance with all dismissal procedures, representation in court in disputes with former employees in connection with staff reduction.
- Advising a professional NHL athlete on the terms and conditions of an employment agreement.
- Advising a Russian agricultural holding company in connection with an industrial accident, representing the company in administrative proceedings, in a case challenging the act of investigation of an industrial accident.
Settlement of labor disputes
- Advising a Russian venture capital company in connection with employee abuse: negotiations with employees, drafting documents and the employer’s position, including for judicial defense.
- Terminating the client’s (a foreign national) employment contract as the CEO of a major trading company on the most favorable terms.
- Representing a major international financial institution in a dispute with a former employee in connection with staff reduction.
- Representing a UK national holding an executive position in a dispute with his employer, an international consulting firm, over underpayment and non-payment of vacation pay.
- Representing a foreign bank in a dispute with its former employee in connection with the employee’s special health condition.
- Advising a French national holding an executive position in a dispute with his employer, an international FMCG company, over underpayment and non-payment of vacation pay.
- Representing a senior executive of a company in a dispute with an international bank over underpayment of vacation pay.
- Advising a foreign top manager in a legal dispute with his employer, an international FMCG company, over underpayment.
