International Practice Groups

Clients can access our International Practice Groups (IPGs), which compliment our extensive portfolio of services.  The IPGs bring together lawyers from across the Alliance with expertise in key areas, including: Individual Employment Rights; Discrimination, Restructuring and Labour Relations; Pensions; Employee Compensation and Benefits; and Immigration and Expatriation.

• Individual Employment Rights
• Discrimination
• Restructuring and Labour Relations
• Pensions
• Employee Compensation and Benefits
• Immigration and Expatriation
• Privacy and Data Protection
• Occupational Health and Safety IPG

Individual Employment Rights IPG provides advice on the unique issues that arise at different stages of employment.  These include employment contracts and workplace policies, performance management and employment relationships, staff training, corporate wellness policies, as well as termination advice and settlement agreements.

Discrimination IPG monitors developments in discrimination law, including significant cases and trends. The group’s expertise covers all areas of discrimination law including discrimination based on: race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, disability, and age, among others. 

Restructuring and Labour Relations IPG advises clients on a full range of restructuring and labour-related matters: corporate restructuring, including business sales and outsourcing; large scale redundancies or reductions in workforce; employee consultation obligations; negotiating with employee representative bodies, such as trade unions and Works Councils, and strikes and industrial action.

Pensions IPG brings together a dedicated group of leading pensions lawyers from across the Alliance. Members of this practice group advise clients, both institutions and employees, on a range of issues, from the setting up and running of pensions schemes to the fund aspects of corporate transactions, such as due diligence and post-merger integration of pensions schemes.

Members of the Employee Compensation and Benefits IPG advise clients on all aspects of employee and executive remuneration, incentives and benefits. From the taxation of cash payments to the implementation of multi-national stock-based incentives, this group offers clients a seamless global service for their employee compensation and benefits needs.  The group also works closely with the Pensions IPG and the Immigration and Expatriation IPG. 

Immigration IPG brings together a dedicated group of immigration lawyers from across the Ius Laboris alliance. Practice group members are able to provide local immigration and expatriation assistance; from strategic business planning to assistance with individual visas, case preparation and file management, to the design of expatriate packages.

Privacy and Data Protection IPG counsels clients on navigating the complex intersection of recently enacted laws in the area, new technology, and employees’ personal data.  Group members provide advice on compliance with data protection requirements applicable to employers, including cross-border transfers of personal data within a corporate group; regulating employees’ on- and off-duty social media activity; preventing, and responding to, security breaches involving employees’ personal data; monitoring employees’ electronic communications, and other cutting-edge issues.

Occupational Health and Safety IPG assists corporations, their management, directors and officers with strategic advice and representation in an era of unprecedented OHS obligations and enforcement. Group members provide assistance with OHS legislative compliance audits; give knowledgeable and prompt advice to assist in managing risks when workplace accidents occur; advise and provide representation in relation to worker claims arising from accidents; provide representation in criminal and other OHS prosecutions; advise on worker discipline for safety; advise on bullying, violence and harassment issues and prevention programs. Group members advise generally on programs and procedures to improve workplace safety and minimize corporate and personal OHS risk.

In our experience, local expertise is crucial to developing coherent Human Resources strategies that work within a global framework. Our International Practice Groups meet regularly and are well placed to coordinate regional and worldwide requests, drawing on each individual lawyer’s wealth of human resources and pensions law experience.