Employment Law, Social Law

A comprehensive expertise covering all aspects of individual and collective labor relations

ADER JOLIBOIS Law Firm provides businesses and employees with a full range of legal services in employment and labor law:

• Drafting employment contracts, converting fixed-term contracts to indefinite-term;
• Dismissals, mutual terminations;
• Discrimination, moral and sexual harassment;
• Professional and non-professional unfitness;
• Compensation, working hours, overtime, and undeclared work;
• Election of personnel representatives (Workplace Health and Safety Committee, union delegates), relations with employee representative bodies;
• Mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), working hours, gender equality at work, quality of work life;
• Compensation policies, profit-sharing, employee shareholding, welfare and retirement schemes;
• Workplace hygiene, safety, and health: single document for the assessment of occupational risks (DUERP), psychosocial risks, etc.;
• Voluntary departure plans;
• Social management of restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, and business transfers (M&A), social due diligence and compliance audits;
• Status of corporate officers, criminal liability of directors, management of the employer’s inexcusable fault;
• Movement of workers, expatriation.

Our deep understanding of corporate needs in human resource management enables us to anticipate and find pragmatic and reliable legal solutions in a complex social landscape where issues abound.

Companies face a rapidly evolving work environment: skill development, reduction of working hours, an increasing desire to balance professional and personal life, autonomy, and the emergence of new forms of work (freelancing, nomadism, wage portage, shared time, intrapreneurship, teleworking, etc.), digitalization of processes.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and the digitalization of processes have accelerated. Companies now integrate social, environmental, and economic concerns into their activities and interactions with stakeholders.

At the head of the Social Law department, Jocelyne Clerc works with leaders and executives from all sectors, from industry to services, including distribution, commerce, and media, on all issues related to the lives of employees and employee representative bodies.

Her approach aligns with ADER JOLIBOIS’s values: strong ethics, attentiveness, and care, as well as a commitment to well-done work which helps better anticipate risks, prevent them, and ensure longevity.

Extensive Experience in Labor Courts and Other Civil, Administrative, or Criminal Jurisdictions

Thanks to their experience with labor courts and national civil, administrative, or criminal jurisdictions, ADER JOLIBOIS lawyers can provide advisory and litigation services on issues related to human resource management in companies, workplace safety and health, or relationships with employee representative bodies.

Proactive Regulatory Monitoring They offer reliable and high-quality legal services, especially to Human Resources Directors, both in developing and implementing an HR strategy aligned with the company’s overall strategy and in dealing with the Labor Inspectorate.

Moreover, social law attorneys benefit from the support of other ADER JOLIBOIS lawyers specialized in corporate law, commercial and competition law, or tax law, enabling them to address all corporate issues and offer a comprehensive range of services