- - - - - - - - - - - - - EMPLOYMENT LAW SRS Advogados´ Employment Department provides legal assistance in all areas of Employment law as well as Social Security and Immigration law. Our lawyers have extensive experience in providing legal assistance in a wide range of market sectors, particularly the following: finance and insurance, telecommunications, energy, pharmaceutical, services, commerce and distribution, civil construction and industry. We provide our services in complete alignment with our Clients’ human resources departments and/or management, with a view to: - Ensure our clients´ full compliance with labour law; - Prevent the occurrence of labour disputes or ensure their swift and effective resolution; and - Assist our Clients in the definition and implementation of their human resources policies and practices. The Employment Department and its lawyers have been consis- tently and successfully distinguished at a national and interna- tional level for their excellence in service delivery. The Employment Department’s practice currently differentiates itself by presenting a high level of sub-specialisation in various subject areas, such as corporate restructures, definition of remuneration policies and contractual models, Employment litigation and disciplinary action, due diligence and collective dispute management. OUR PRACTICE COVERS THE FOLLOWING MAIN AREAS AND SUBJECTS: Definition of employee remuneration and benefit plans and policies; Organisation of working time, including adaptability regimes, hours banks and exemption from normal working hours regimes; Temporary and definite transfer of workplace, both individual and collective; Employment issues arising from corporate acquisitions, mergers and de-mergers, concentrations, business transfers and other types of corporate restructure; Individual and collective redundancy procedures, including collective and individual unilateral dismissals; Disciplinary processes; Collective bargaining disputes and collective dispute management; Establishment and set-up of employee collective representation structures, including european works councils and local work councils; Employment litigation; Collective immigration and international assigments/ secondments; Social Security, including early retirement and pre-retirement regimes; Legal and procedural due diligence. Drafting of employment contracts and other contract types for the hire of human resources;