Employee relations and collective bargaining
Works councils, mandatory annual bargaining, collective agreements, dispute management.
The approach
Employee relations are prepared like a negotiation: a clear mandate, known margins, a walk-away point identified before entering the room. The firm helps to set those three, drafts the agreements and attends meetings where the presence of counsel helps keep exchanges calm.
Support also covers the least visible part of employee relations: the regularity of convening notices, the agenda, consultation periods and the drafting of minutes. Obstruction cases are won or lost on those procedural points, rarely on the substance of the disagreement.
Matters handled
- Setting up and running the works council
- Mandatory annual bargaining and company-level agreements
- Recurring and one-off consultations, deadlines and expert reviews
- Workplace elections and pre-election disputes
- Obstruction offences: prevention and defence
- Resolving collective disputes and end-of-strike protocols
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