Responsable :   Patrick Thiébart

The Labor and Employment Department is managed by Patrick Thiébart.

Franklin has an extensive practice in all areas of law related to labor, human resources, employment, social security and immigration in France.

The Labor and Employment Department advises listed or private corporations, financial institutions and state-owned entities of French or foreign origin. In particular, many U.S. and U.K. corporations and top notch independent law firms call on Franklin to provide efficient, practical advice based on the department’s extensive knowledge of the substantial body of labor-related laws in France.

The professionals within this department regularly advise the firm’s clients in connection with day-to-day staff management issues such as setting-up contractual relations, ensuring labor and employment regulation compliance and managing relations with employee representative bodies.

The Labor and Employment Department regularly advise publicly traded or private legal entities completing extraordinary corporate transactions such as acquisitions and disposals, restructurings or strategic alliances in coordination with the Corporate Law Department.

The Labor and Employment Department also has significant experience in contentious labor and employment law matters, whether at an individual or a collective level, and actively represents clients before industrial and social security courts.

The Labor and Employment Law professionals are widely recognized for their expertise in the following areas:

Preparing and implementing employment preservation plans (plans de sauvegarde de l’emploi) and managing restructurings

The employment related issues associated with mergers and acquisitions such as executive compensation, labor due diligence and benefits

Individual and collective dismissals

Negotiations with employee representation bodies and labor inspection agents

Disputes involving senior executives

Elections of employee representatives; employee savings plans including profit sharing, share allocation and stock option plans

Drafting and, where appropriate, negotiating employment contracts, internal regulations and codes of ethics; · employee outsourcing

Prevention and resolution of disputes relating to psychological and sexual harassment

Criminal labor law such as the violation of fair labor practices, illegal hiring out and the violation of working time regulations.