Worldwide coverage, Local compliance
Our human resources solutions are effective worldwide.
Our attorneys work.
Collaboratively across borders and practices to provide integrated solutions to a wide range of employment related legal concerns.
YOUR CHALLENGE
In many locations, employer and employee expectations are shifting
Corporate and personnel structures have dramatically changed in response to globalization, as well as to shifting economic conditions around the world. Maintaining a global workforce on a cost-effective basis and consistent with appropriate risk management guidelines requires sophisticated cross-border strategies and deep local knowledge. Managing disparate labor and employment laws, business practices and cultural expectations are critical.
At ARC, we have the expansive reach and experience to help plan and implement worldwide effective, locally compliant labor strategies. Our Global Employment Practice consistently ranks among the world’s best, with more leading lawyers in more countries than any other law firm. Drawing on extensive experience and effective delivery tools, our lawyers have helped some of the largest multinational companies achieve organizational efficiency over the past 18 years.
As a firm operating in 4 countries, we have first hand insight into what it takes to successfully manage and nurture a diverse worldwide workforce.
OUR FLUENCY
With deep local roots in markets that account for 80 percent of the world’s GDP, we help you navigate complex labor and employment laws and regulations to facilitate seamless compliance at home or abroad. We can draft codes of conduct and CSR policies compliant with international labor and human rights standards, and complementary to corporate business objectives. While our first objective is to help you anticipate — and prevent — legal risks, we can also mount exceptionally effective defenses against damaging disputes whenever they arise. From individual or class actions, our lawyers bring to bear extensive labor and employment-related litigation experience, including successful defenses against many of the most powerful unions around the world. We have helped clients respond to complaints alleging violations of ILO, UN, and/or OECD standards and can guide compliance with Labor Side Accords under bilateral Free Trade Agreements.
YOUR CHALLENGE
We help you deploy talent where it is needed, using suitable procedures to facilitate single or high volume transfers.
We develop proper and timely employee communication strategies and procedures so that reorganizations and restructuring are executed efficiently, but with great sensitivity and care.
Here are ways we help
Workplace counseling and policies. We provide both domestic and international employment counseling to clients — from hiring to termination — on offer letters and employment agreements, independent contractor/consulting agreements, personnel policies, work rules and handbooks, protection of confidential information and trade secrets, wage and hour issues, bonus, commission and other compensation plans, discrimination, harassment and retaliation matters, workplace safety, workplace privacy rights, reductions in force and other cost-cutting measures, and any other labor and employment issues faced by domestic and multinational employers. Further, we provide preventive workplace training to avert employment disputes and help management recognize and counsel through employment issues.
Employment-related litigation.
We defend or prosecute national or mult ijurisdictional, class or individual, labor, civil and criminal claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, whistleblower, employee benefits and equity awards, health and safety, fraud and damage caused by employees, torts, and others before civil, criminal and labor courts in various jurisdictions. We also provide assistance and representation in administrative procedures before labor authorities and administrative law courts.
Labor relations. We advise and help with unionizing activities, dealings with works councils at all levels, collective bargaining, interpretation of work rules, industrial disputes, strike and lockouts. We also represent clients before labor authorities and other governmental bodies.
Global immigration and executive transfer. We facilitate global management of migration and mobility, compliance, including advising on expatriate assignments and third country national hires in each of our clients’ global locations. Our services provide end-to-end advice, from obtaining work and residency permits to sorting out employment agreements, social security requirements, benefit packages, tax equalization, multij urisdictional claims and other issues. We advise on negotiations for individual and group relocations and modification of working conditions.
Employee benefits and executive compensation. We design, implement, and administer all types of employee benefits and executive compensation programs, including deferred compensation and other incentive or variable remuneration plans and profit sharing plans.
Global equity services. We design, implement, and maintain equity-based compensation programs, including stock option plans, stock purchase plans, restricted stock/unit plans and stock appreciation rights plans for their employees, consultants, and directors. Our Firm is a recognized world leader in designing global equity programs and has helped numerous Fortune 250 companies plan and implement equity strategies across more than 130 countries.
Pensions law We provide practical counseling to employers, trustees and administrators of occupational pension plans for all aspects of legislative, regulatory and tax requirements.
Workforce restructuring. We advise clients on all stages of reductions in force and plant closings, starting with the initial planning phase, continuing with the consultation with works councils and unions and ending with the implementation through separation agreements and notices.
Transactions. We advise on all employment-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, post-acquisition integrations of newly acquired businesses, as well as outsourcing or other specific arrangements. We conduct due diligence for all types of corporate transactions; draft deal documents, such as asset and stock purchase agreements, joint venture agreements, merger agreements, transition services agreements, etc.; prepare employee transfer step lists and timelines; draft employee assignment, assumption, transfer and termination /rehire documents; advise on related reductions in force; and prepare compensation and change control plans. In so doing, we work closely with the entire deal team, such as our corporate and security professionals, international commercial colleagues, and tax advisers.
Did you know?
We provide labor and employment advice to around 200 clients a year in 10 or more jurisdictions, including some that require assistance from each of our offices operating in 4 countries
ARC has been global since inception. Being global is part of our DNA.
Our difference is the way we think, work and behave – we combine an instinctively global perspective with a genuinely multicultural approach, enabled by collaborative relationships and yielding practical, innovative advice. Serving our clients with more than 80 lawyers in over 04countries, we have a deep understanding of the culture of business the world over and are able to bring the talent and experience needed to navigate complexity across practices and borders with ease.
At ARC, we have the expansive reach and experience to help
Employment, labor and benefits issues are complex and challenging for every business — more so when operations cross borders and cultures as part of a multinational presence. Steering safely through complicated laws and regulations in home markets and abroad is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage.
From recruitment to retirement, our lawyers provide seamless and integrated advice to help clients anticipate and avoid problems, as well as deal effectively and sensitively with collective bargaining and works council issues.
We are especially well-suited to facilitate the movement of people and work around the globe — from executive transfers to outsourcing as well as the implementation of global reorganizations. Our practice is also a world leader in the design and maintenance of global equity-based compensation plans.
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