Services

The services provided concern both the comprehensive support at a proactive phase (provision of special legal advice), during the commencement, operation and termination of the employment contracts, as well as the representation of the Companies before each competent Court (Court of First Instance, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Council of State), as well as the controlling organizations (e-EFKA, Labour Inspectorate). Several decisions of our office have been published in the legal publications (Nomos Legal Information Bank, Bulletin of Labor Law, Labor Law Journal).

Specifically, we advise the Human Resources (HR) Department, the Legal Department and the Management of our corporate clients on the operation and performance of the employment relationship and in particular on the following critical issues:

1. Drafting employment contracts of all the most specific types (fixed-term or indefinite, full-time, part-time, rotational).
2. Termination of employment contracts.
3. Preparation of Internal Labour Regulations and other Labour Policies.
4. Equal treatment issues.
5. Protection of personal data.
6. Payroll audit and compliance with legislation.
7. Monitoring compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Rules, in cooperation with the Company's physician and Safety Technician.
8. Drafting employment contracts of executive and managing employees, legal advice on the commencement and termination of employment contracts of managing employees.
9. Non-competition clauses to managing employees after the termination of their employment contract, regardless of whether the termination is due to voluntary resignation or termination of the employment contract.
10. Specialized preventive audit to minimize the risk of litigation exposure of the Company to employee labor claims.
11. Continuous updates on the Greek legal framework regulating private sector employment relationships.
12. Education and training of managers on issues related to the implementation of labour legislation (in-house training).
13. Due diligence of Companies for labour and insurance claims on transfer of business, acquisition, merger.
14. Outsourcing part of a production activity to a third party.
15. Participation in the preparation of business plans for business restructuring, closure, collective redundancies.
16. Participation in the preparation of a voluntary redundancy scheme for employees of the company.
17. Legal coverage for trade union issues and strikes.
18. Participation in collective bargaining for the signing of an occupational collective agreement.
19. Representation of the Company in the mediation and arbitration proceedings before the Organization for Mediation & Arbitration (gr. OMED).
20. Representation of the Company before all levels of jurisdiction of the civil courts and before the Supreme Court (labor disputes legal procedures).
21. Collaboration with the human resources department for the preparation/change of the organizational chart of the Firm/ or Group companies, legal advice on change of duties/position of employees, prevention to avoid unilateral harmful amendments during the exercise of the managerial right.
22. Annual information to the Board of Directors of Enterprise through submission of a risk analysis report of the Enterprise's risk analysis report on labour and insurance claims of third parties/employees and auditing bodies (Labour Inspectorate, EFKA).