Employment and Labour
Our employment team is geared to advising clients on all legal and practical issues arising out of the employment or engagement of employees, directors and independent contractors. We provide practical solutions and resolve issues relating to employer-employee disputes.
With extensive experience in representing international employers and senior executives across a range of industry sectors, our employment lawyers offer a highly individual service to suit the requirements of each client.
Labour and employment law and practice have been evolving, aiming to keep apace with the influx of foreign investors, a foreign work force and attendant employment issues. Contractual issues governing relations between employers and their workforce need careful consideration. As employers increasingly seek to remunerate their employees with a variety of benefits as well as provide incentives through employee stock option schemes, it is becoming increasingly important for corporates to adopt well established and internationally accepted policies and procedures. Implications of providing stock option schemes, rules regulating insider trading, issues of confidentiality and protection of intellectual property must all be factored in when considering employment issues in India. Indian labour and tax laws also impose certain obligations on employers that must be considered and met.
With extensive experience in representing international employers and senior executives across a range of industry sectors, our employment lawyers offer a highly individual service to suit the requirements of each client.
Labour and employment law and practice have been evolving, aiming to keep apace with the influx of foreign investors, a foreign work force and attendant employment issues. Contractual issues governing relations between employers and their workforce need careful consideration. As employers increasingly seek to remunerate their employees with a variety of benefits as well as provide incentives through employee stock option schemes, it is becoming increasingly important for corporates to adopt well established and internationally accepted policies and procedures. Implications of providing stock option schemes, rules regulating insider trading, issues of confidentiality and protection of intellectual property must all be factored in when considering employment issues in India. Indian labour and tax laws also impose certain obligations on employers that must be considered and met.
Our employment & labour law experience includes:
- Employment contracts & service contracts
- Employment litigation
- Restrictive covenants
- Non competition
- Employee Share Option Plans (ESOPs)
- Labour law, foreign exchanges rules, tax laws
- Regulatory clearances
- Office manuals, policies, processes and procedures
Sample transactions:
- Advised a leading US financial product and services company on setting up a 6 location call centre operation in India on various employment and exit option strategies and issues including legalities relating to women in the workplace, legal requirements relating benefits/perks, unionisation laws, labour contracts, usage and enforceability arising in different States of India.
- Advised software multinational on several issues relating to employment laws in respect of appointment, retrenchment, disciplinary proceedings, stock options and termination proceedings.
- Advised a large global bank in conjunction with an international law firm in relation to the overhaul of their human resources policy.
- Advised on the Employees Stock Option Plans and global tax efficient structures.
- Advised on various aspects of Indian employment law generally, termination of employment, drafting terms of employment contracts, non-discrimination laws in India and tax structuring for employment of expatriates.
