LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

We offers comprehensive legal services regarding individual labor-related problems, including compensation, retirement allowances, wrongful termination and employment rules; collective labor-related problems including collective bargaining, and collective agreement and union-related problems; labor-related issues concerning business restructuring; and mergers and acquisitions, including downsizing, collective transfer of employees. Principal areas of advice and litigation are:

• Matters regarding compensation, retirement allowances, and dismissal
• Drafting employment rules
• Various legal matters with respect to unions including construction of collective bargaining agreements, justifiability of dispute tactics
• Non-competition agreements
• Layoffs related to plant closing, business restructuring and mergers and acquisitions
• Assistance in coping with strikes and/or other labor disputes
• Pensions and employment related insurances