Employment and Social Security Law
Technical and pragmatic advice on human resources
We stay up-to-date with changing regulations and understand your business needs. We help clients define and implement their HR strategies with precision.
We also assist in managing risks and provide guidance for complex cases, such as reorganization projects, collective dismissal procedures, strikes, and in the context of collective proceedings.

Interventions
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Collective Labor Relations
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Individual and Collective Litigation
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Restructuring Management
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Mergers and acquisitions
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Workplace Health and Safety
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Individual Labor Relations
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Compensation, Employee Savings, and Equity Ownership
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Social Security and Welfare Law
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Ethics
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Status and Compensation of Executives
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Organizational Changes
Understanding the way in which employer/employee relationships are governed through a range of specific agreements is essential. We help you navigate this changing landscape by advising on:
- The functioning of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE),
- Management of employee representatives,
- Mandatory working hours,
- Salary negotiations, training contracts, mobility agreements, job retention agreements, etc.
- Management of collective actions,
- Disputes related to collective agreements.
We handle all types of employment law lititgation: strikes, allegations of harassment, accidents in the workplace, collective or individual conflicts, administrative, criminal, and civil litigation related to hidden labor practices.
We work with you to define a judicial or pre-litigation strategy, and represent you before all relevant jurisdictions.
Successfully restructuring a company requires rigorous planning and execution. We provide a secure and successful pathway for your business.
From activity transfers to layoffs, our team ensures that the project submitted to the CSE is well-documented to address all potential objections, and carefully communicated to employees and allstakeholders including unions’ leaders.We help buyers and sellers analyze all the employment law implications that need to be considered in an M&A context.
Our proven methodology helps all parties reach optimal outcomes.
Within employment law, workplace health and safety is paramount. All physical and psychological risks must be identified and managed.
As more and more emphasis is placed upon these risks, the financial stakes are significant for employers if found at fault. To mitigate this, we help clients improve preventative measures, including through risk mapping, and advice on prevention plans.
We work with companies on all aspects of individual labor relations. Our cross-functional approach includes:
- Protection of fundamental freedoms
- Accommodation of religious practices
- Monitoring of employees (cyber, video)
- Protection of union activity
- Employee use of social media
Our team can help companies define their compensation policy. We offer guidance on various tools, including bonus and variable compensation mechanisms, profit-sharing, stock-options, free share awards, BSPCE, and retirement and savings plans.
Our services aim to align the compensation policy with the company's objectives and values, including its social responsibility, to improve staff retention.
Providing adequate social security coverage is a fundamental part of a company's strategy. We help you design and implement your social security coverage in compliance with the law.
Through regular audits, we also ensure that internal practices are adhered to.
Drawing on our cross-functional expertise between labor law and our Business and Human Rights' offering, we are called upon by companies in the context of their CSR strategy and in drafting the terms of their internal ethics policy.
We advise on all aspects related to the status and compensation of executives, including:
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- Negotiation of status, compensation and termination clauses
- Advice on the possibility of combining executive and employee status
- Compensation policies subject to general meetings, such as say on pay
- Termination and potential litigation
To help clients optimize the way they are organized, we review working time arrangements, and help implement internal mobility schemes.
Team
- Partners
- Senior Associates
- Associates
- Senior Counsels
- Counsels
- Working languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, Arabic
Rewards
Highly regarded team covering a wide range of employment mandates. Highly skilled in assisting both French and international clients, including CAC 40 companies, with employee litigation, company reorganisations and collective redundancy plans. Demonstrates additional expertise dealing with matters concerning workplace discrimination and internal investigations. Further experience in bonus-related disputes and issues surrounding foreign secondment.
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Employment
Tier 1/4
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Emmanuelle Barbara
Hall of fame
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Marie-Hélène Bensadoun
Leading individual
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Diane Reboursier
Rising star
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Isabelle Hadoux-Vallier
Rising star
Legal 500 EMEA/Paris
Social security : Compensation and Benefits
Tier 2/2
“Highly regarded team covering a wide range of employment mandates. Highly skilled in assisting both French and international clients, including CAC 40 companies, with employee litigation, company reorganisations and collective redundancy plans. Demonstrates additional expertise dealing with matters concerning workplace discrimination and internal investigations. Further experience in bonus-related disputes and issues surrounding foreign secondment."
"One client lauds the responsiveness and business orientation of the team, highlighting its "speed in understanding needs and risks," while remaining "always reachable and able to meet any need.""
Chambers and partners Europe 2023
Employment law
Band 1
Chambers and partners Europe 2023
Emmanuelle Barbara
Band 1
Chambers and partners Europe 2023
Marie-Hélène Bensadoun
Band 3
Chambers and partners Europe 2023
Virginie Devos
Band 4
Chambers and partners Europe 2023
Fabienne Haas
BAND 5
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
Additional social protection
Excellent
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
Collective and individual remuneration
Excellent
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
High-risk litigation and criminal labor law
Leading
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
Collective bargaining and social relations
Leading
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
Restructuring, redundancy plans and related collective litigation
Leading
Décideurs stratégie finance droit
Representation of senior executives
Highly recommended
• Fabienne Haas
• Philippe Durand
• Marie-Hélène Bensadoun
• Virginie Devos
• Catherine Le Manchec
• Eric Manca
• Mary Daphné Fishelson
• Isabelle Hadoux-Vallier
Option Droit & Affaires
Redundancy plans and insolvency litigation
Tier 1/5
Who's Who Legal Global/France
Emmanuelle Barbara
Labour & Employment
Who's Who Legal Global/France
Fabienne Haas
Labour & Employment
Who's Who Legal Global/France
Philippe Durand
Labour & Employment ; Pensions & Benefits (global)
Who's Who Legal Global/France
Marie-Hélène Bensadoun
Labour & Employment
Who's Who Legal Global/France
Mary-Daphné Fishelson
Labour & Employment
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