Voltaire Lawyers The ability to handle complex and atypical 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.

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.

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.

Workplace health and safety

Contesting claims for workplace accidents and occupational illness. Representation before the courts – Social division. Defense in matters of inexcusable fault.

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.

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.

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.

Public law

Assistance with mobility of public officials: secondment, placement, automatic secondment for transfer of activity to a private organisation, etc.

Support for internal investigations following a report from a public employee.
Support for EPICs where public employees and private-sector employees coexist in their day-to-day or exceptional problems (collective bargaining, internal regulations, expert appraisals requested by public and private-sector staff representation bodies, etc.).

Social compliance/CSR

Drafting ethical charters and establishing whistleblowing systems. Business practice and security audits.

Implementing CSR policy. Mission-led companies.

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 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
Inter-company

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 particular project in mind?

We devise programmes that match your specific needs.