Labour negotiations

Using the framework of labour law as a basis for managing a company is the ambition of UGGC & Associés lawyers specializing in this area. The necessary labour regulations in place to protect employees do not necessarily need to hinder company projects or flexible labour relations, when collective negotiation allows employees to adopt the company’s organisational standards.

The lawyers from the Labour Law department help clients identify the objectives that should be reached to organize labour relations within the firm, assist them in handling meetings with staff representatives and to draw up collective agreements. The firm’s lawyers can also counsel their clients when to stop negotiating and to advise them in the announcement and implementation of their decisions.

With their experience acquired and tested with large international groups, listed companies, SMEs and public establishments, UGGC & Associés assists its clients with managing labour issues throughout their development:

- setting up or modifying remuneration systems and save-as-you-earn schemes with a dedicated team, consisting of labour law, tax law and corporate law specialists (organizing mandatory annual negotiations, variable remuneration systems, profit sharing and profit sharing linked to a specific project, setting up employee participation schemes, company savings plan, time savings account, retirement plan…);

- development and modification of work organization and working hours (working time as an annual figure, work cycles, continuous work, deputizing teams, executive packages…);

- restructuring, transfer of companies or establishments and redundancy plans (managing relations with work’s councils, signing methodology and method agreements, reviewing employee transfer terms in compliance with Labour Code Article L.122-12, modification of working conditions or employment contracts, defining and modifying social support measures);

- company mergers (managing consultations of work’s councils, defining and negotiating wage harmonisation structure of collective agreements);

- corporate life of companies and preventing problems (company ethics, drawing up charters, IT charters, employment and competence provisional management agreements…).