Proskauer Rose LLP's international labor and employment law attorneys counsel companies doing business globally in connection with the various employment issues they face in their workplaces around the world. We provide multinational organizations with advice and participate in strategic planning concerning "offshoring" integrating worldwide workforces, launching global human resources programs, solving cross-border employment and employee benefits law problems, and ensuring that global operations comply with employment laws and corporate policy worldwide. For more information about this practice area, contact:
Our International Labor and Employment Law Practice Group attorneys work in all our Firm's offices, including Paris. For local-country matters outside the U.S. and France, we regularly call on our wide network of local-country labor/employment/benefits lawyers worldwide, with whom we have strong working relationships. The following are examples of the services we provide to our clients:
- "Offshoring" and "Global Resourcing": integrating "offshored" workers into global HR systems while ensuring "global resourcing" and foreign outsourcing comply with laws in all affected countries
- Global policies/benefits/compensation: aligning HR strategies and personnel policies (including benefits, compensation, and stock
ownership offerings) across national borders, as modified for local law and best practices
- International HR compliance: ensuring global HR operations comply with local employment laws/best practices and global corporate policies, including:
- Assuring compliance with employment laws that span borders (e.g., Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, equal employment opportunity laws, European data privacy laws) and with global corporate policies
- Adapting U.S.-style HR policies (e.g., diversity, harassment, whistleblowing) to operations and best practices worldwide
- Conducting multi-country compliance audits of local HR programs and practices
- Creating, implementing and monitoring corporate codes of conduct, including ensuring suppliers' employment practices conform to global free-trade rules and corporate codes
- Drafting global templates for employment contracts, work rules, and
employee handbooks, and creating local versions
- Global diversity programs: designing workable global diversity programs that account for radically different applicant pool demographics overseas
- HR in cross-border mergers and acquisitions: overseeing employment aspects of cross-border M&A, from due diligence and contract drafting through "acquired rights" law analysis and post-merger integration
- Multi-country reductions-in-force and restructurings: coordinating multi-country reductions-in-force and plant shutdowns ("collective redundancies"), and advising on global restructurings
- Data privacy: assuring worldwide HR operations and systems (e.g., SAP, PeopleSoft) comply with data privacy laws
- Expatriate legal issues: advising on expatriate employment contracts, expatriate severance, choice-of-law, extraterritorial reach of U.S. discrimination law, and globalizing corporate expatriate programs
- Cross-border employee representation strategy: coordinating employer collective bargaining strategies across borders, including setting up European Works Councils and structuring local-country works-council networks in anticipation of the European Union directive on local works councils
- Class claim strategy: protecting worldwide operations against the trend toward bringing overseas-employment-context class actions in U.S. courts (such as under the Alien Tort Claims Act)
- Training: leading international HR training sessions, including training HR teams on global workplace laws and best practices and training worldwide managers on harassment, discrimination, and ethics worldwide
- Global employment law counsel: serving as corporate global employment law counsel by overseeing multinationals' foreign labor and employment law matters handled in-country by locally licensed labor lawyers retained through Proskauer's Global Employment Lawyer Network
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