Bind provides legal assistance in all aspects of Employment and Social Security Law, with the technical support of lawyers with vast experience in employment-related legal advice in a wide range of business sectors, in particular in the food and beverage, services, energy, pharmaceutical, commerce, distribution, industry and construction areas.

Main areas of activity:

• Legal advice on general and strategic employment matters, including on tax and social security matters, in the field of employment;
• Companies’ restructuring processes, including, namely, collective redundancies, dismissals, employment contract termination agreements and lay-off procedures;
• Individual and collective employment contracts, temporary employment contracts, temporary worker assignment agreements and service agreements, internal and external service assignment of senior executives and foreign workers’ contracts;
• Support to companies in the management of human resources, including support to functional and geographical mobility, alteration of remunerations, including matters of fringe benefits, drafting of incentive plans, stock purchase plans and pension schemes;
• Disciplinary procedures;
• Employment audits (due diligence);
• Representation and defence of the Client’s interests in any employment disputes in courts, arbitration panels, employment mediators, administrative and social security authorities;
• Representation of clients in meetings with unions, professional associations and inspection authorities;
• Social security and labour regulatory offences;
• Administrative and judicial occupational accident proceedings;
• Health and safety in the workplace;
• Assistance in processes of hiring and legalisation of foreign workers;
• Hiring and posting of non-EU foreign workers and work visa application processes and others.