Labour, Social Security and Immigration Law

In this context, our Team is dedicated to advising Clients on a daily basis in:

• Preventive checkups to monitor the compliance level;
• Hiring of employees, including hiring of top executives and members of corporate bodies;
• Recruitment of trainees and service providers;
• Occasional/temporary assignment of employees;
• Contracting under an outsourcing scheme and subcontracting of services;

• International postings of employees (in Portugal or abroad), including the elaboration of all internal regulations and legal contractual instruments with a view to the transfer and the temporary posting of employees and posting practices between companies;
• Corporate restructuring procedures, downsizing, partial or total closure of companies and procedures for the transfer of undertakings or economic units;
• Due diligence processes, namely within the scope of transactions with employment impacts;
• Collective labour regulation instruments;
• Planning and implementing benefits and incentive schemes for employees;
• Legal procedures aiming at changing the contractual conditions for the employees;
• Prevention of occupational risks;
   

• Filing and directing disciplinary procedures;
• Planning and implementing redundancy procedures (collective redundancies, dissolution of the work position and termination by mutual agreement);
• Negotiation with employee associations and official entities;
• Strategic management of human resources, namely with respect to decision making support and recruitment procedures;
• Settlement of labour conflicts and of disputes related to non-compliance of Labour Law and/or Social Security provisions; and
• Legal advice to national and multinational Clients, on a daily basis, in recurring labour law issues.