Voltaire Avocats
Experience in complex
and unconventional cases
Our team of lawyers is experienced in complex operations and risk mitigation, spanning from the daily operations of SMEs to the requirements of big groups. The firm’s repertoire of technical and practical skills serves and supports companies for development, consolidation and protection.
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Innovative employment and labour law solutions
Supporting companies with routine and complex problems, including securing individual employment relations, collective bargaining and union issues, managing employee representation bodies and professional elections.
Individual and collective disputes
Defending companies in all types of legal actions including employment litigation, disputes with trade unions, social and economic committees (CSE), contesting findings commissioned by the CSE and contesting collective agreements.
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Supporting economic transitions
Employment protection schemes, collective performance agreements, mutually agreed resignation schemes. Due diligence for company sales, mergers and acquisitions, LBOs, etc.
Social security law
Establishing remuneration policy, payroll procedure audits, defending against findings of social security body inspections.
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Workplace health and safety
Working time arrangements
Optimising working hours to fit needs and constraints, drafting collective working time agreements, flat-rate agreements, individual work arrangements, night-shift regulations, on-call regulations, Sunday dispensation, etc.
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Company savings plans
Development or review of employee savings plans including profit shares, participation, company savings and pension plans.
Social protection
Establishing and securing company benefits plans.
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Criminal labour law
Criminal risk audits for labour issues, delegation of power reviews, acting as defence before the criminal courts: obstruction offences, occupational health and safety regulation violations, etc.
Remuneration
Assisting in developing remuneration systems. Designing innovative employee retention schemes. Establishing secure practices: bonus plans, long-term incentives, etc.
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Public law
Assistance with mobility of public officials: secondment, placement, automatic secondment for transfer of activity to a private organisation, etc.
Assistance with internal investigations after a report by public officials.
Accompanying EPIC public bodies employing both public officials and employees covered by private law in routine or exceptional problems: collective bargaining, internal regulations, expert audits by public and private staff representative bodies etc.
Social compliance/CSR
Drafting ethical charters and establishing whistleblowing systems. Business practice and security audits.
Implementing CSR policy. Mission-led companies.
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Internal investigations
Internal investigations into individual and/or collective whistleblowing. The firm has developed an investigation methodology to ensure compliance with ethical principles.
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DISCOVER OUR EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW TRAINING COURSES
Breakfast briefings and legal insight training
Keep abreast of the latest legal and regulatory news and case law in a relaxed environment.
Participate in our courses to reinforce your business practices and stay in step with the latest in employment and labour law.
Training
B2B
Learn the best employment and labour law practices for your business. Training tailored to your needs.
Train your teams and employees: President, CEO, CFO, HRD, recruitment manager and others.
Do you have a
specific project ?
We devise programmes that match your specific needs.
