Employment / Labour
Zepos & Yannopoulos provides a wide range of legal and tax services to clients on all aspects of employment law. Our fully dedicated Employment Group has extensive experience in advising on a vast range of complex issues for a wide variety of clients both national and global. Working closely with legal entities and law firms from all over the world, we advise, among others, on:
- employment contracts and freelance agreements
- recruitment
- dismissal and post-termination issues
- severance payments
- part-time and temporary employment
- personnel regulations and codes of conduct
- cross-border employment issues, including foreign tax credit planning and expatriate issues
- fringe benefits, exit packages and respective tax implications
- stock-option plans
- pension funds
- transfer of undertakings and acquired rights
- employment, pension and incentive scheme aspects of acquisitions and corporate reorganizations
- information and consultation
- restructurings and work force reductions
- collective dismissals
- closures of business
- insolvency
- alternative dispute resolution
- collective disputes and negotiations with labour unions
- strikes
- disabled and protected employees
- pregnancy and maternity
- health and safety issues
- labour law audits, social security compliance and handling of possible contingencies and
- employment litigation
As examples, we have advised:
- Companies such as Cisco, Nokia, Cadbury, Carrefour, BIC, Booking, Hewlett-Packard, Iberdrola, Sfera Joven, Alcatel, Footlocker, Nokia, TIM, Leroy Merlin, Siemens, Makro, Georgia Pacific, ExxonMobil, Oracle, Edding, Bausch & Lomb, Media Markt, and Chevron on a variety of labour law issues arising from their operations in Greece, ranging from day-to-day support to termination of senior employees
- Nokia Siemens Networks Hellas on employment issues arising from the transfer of employees and the integration of benefits relating to the joint venture between Nokia and Siemens
- In the framework of the restructuring of the Athens Exchange we provided legal advice on all employment obligations with respect to the transfer of employment contracts
- Hellenic Petroleum on the terms of the offering of shares to employees in the framework of its initial public offering and drafted the rules of the employee share option scheme
- In the framework of the takeover of Heracles Halkis General Cement Company by Blue Circle Industries PLC, legal advice on the handling of redundancies and the restructuring of the payroll system; in the framework of the acquisition of 6.7% shareholding of Commercial Bank of Greece by Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole and the related cooperation agreements between their subsidiaries, Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole on all regulatory, contractual and other obligations of the Commercial Bank of Greece with regard to employee benefits
- The contractors for the maintenance of the US Military Bases in Greece on various labour issues as well as on the business collective labour agreements and resolution of collective labour disputes by arbitration; we also handled over 100 employment litigation cases
- Merrill Lynch on employment issues resulting from the winding up of its operations in Greece
- Bouygues Travaux Publics on taxation of expatriate staff remuneration
- ChevronTexaco on the employment issues arising from the restructuring of its business in Greece including collective labour disputes and strikes
- Provimi Hellas and Maxxium Hellas with regard to the closing down of their operations in Greece and the termination of all personnel
- Munich Re on acquired rights and transfer issues and conducted legal due diligence for target insurance companies in Greece
- Various clients on the legal and tax aspects of the implementation of stock option plans for employees in Greece.
Finally, in collaboration with our tax practice group and upon the request of our corporate clients, we offer advice to senior executives serving in Greece on various issues such as taxation of multinational employment, including tax compliance, stock compensation or insurance plans and administrative or criminal implications arising from the performance of their duties in Greece.
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