Employment

We are convinced that people are the most important thing in business. For this reason our goal is to find the most conciliatory, timely and effective solution of any matter relating to personnel using our best practices and experience.

Areas of Expertice

• Ongoing advice on a wide range of employment law issues and the preparation of the relevant documents
• Development of internal regulations and personnel programmes for incentivizing employees
• Providing legal assistance in redundancy procedures, advice on employment issues if companies are reorganized and restructured
• Providing advice on employment law matters in mergers and acquisitions, on matters associated with the transfer of staff from one company to the other, and the secondment and outsourcing of staff
• Assessing an employer’s documents in terms of its compliance with occupational safety requirements
• Providing advice on the hiring of foreign top-level employees by Russian subsidiaries, drafting employment contracts, job descriptions, internal rules and policies, and bringing companies’ activities into compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation
• Providing advice on matters of conducting internal investigations
• Resolving labour disputes
• Dealing with government authorities, employees and trade unions, and defending clients’ interests during audits

Recent Cases

• Analyzed the documents relating to HR record keeping and environmental safety, health and occupational safety at a client’s plants in Russia to ensure the compliance of the company’s activity with statutory requirements. Based on the results of our analysis the client brought its internal documents and procedures into order and prepared its Russian enterprises for audits of the State Labour Inspectorate
• Provided advice to a client, a major producer of concrete products in Norway, on labour and migration matters associated with the company’s CEO and the sole shareholder (a citizen of Norway) being refused to entry into Russia for several years owing to his/her Russian work permit being invalidated
• Provided legal assistance when employees in divisions of a client’s company (one of the world’s largest oil companies) all across the Russian Federation (mainly in the Far East) were transferred to remote work from their home offices. Provided legal support to a client in implementing a remote work system, created by the client, in other jurisdictions in Russia
• Provided legal support to a senior manager of a leading producer of uniform and work wear in Russia when there was a challenge to the employer’s decision to impose financial liability for damaging equipment
• Provided legal support to the leading international consulting and engineering company in the area of pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies in resolving labour matters affecting Heads of Business Operations in Russia

Rankings

The Best Lawyers

• Labor and Employment Law: Lyubov Erigo

Pravo – 300

• Labor and Migration Law (including disputes), Regional ranking (Group 1: 2021, 2023)

Kommersant

• Labour and migration law. Dispute resolution and advice in the field of labor and migration law. Regional ranking (2022)
• Labour and migration law. Advising on labour and immigration legislation. Federal ranking (Band 2: 2023)

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