Employment law
Scope:
- Hiring and dismissing employees
- Mobbing and discrimination, unequal treatment, and protection of personal rights
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Working hours, overtime, effective work organisation
- Remote working
- Training contracts
- Absences, sick leave
- Non-competition clauses, unfair competition, conflicts of interest
- Compensation and employee motivation, including benefits
- Implementation of pay transparency
- Collective and individual redundancies, restructuring, transfers of undertakings
- Health and safety, and accidents at work
- Employee audits and due diligence, M&A advisory
- Inspections of State Labour Inspectorate
- Company Social Benefits Fund
- Employee Pension Schemes and Employee Capital Plans
- Temporary work and employment agencies
Trade unions
Scope:
- Representation in ongoing contacts with trade union bodies
- Developing communication strategies
- Preparation and negotiation of wage agreements, collective labour agreements
- Collective disputes and protest actions
- Support in managing the rights of protected persons
- Audit of union relations
- Termination of contracts with specially-protected employees
- Representation in legal disputes with specially-protected employees
Social security and payroll taxes
Scope:
- Participation in social security and health insurance
- Advice on the contribution and taxation of employee benefits, including exemptions
- Applications for the interpretations of Social Insurance Institution
- Support during the audits of Social Insurance Institution – appeals against Social Insurance Institution’s decisions, representation of clients in audit proceedings and court cases concerning appeals against unfavorable Social Insurance Institution’s decisions
- Advice from a social security perspective on company social benefits funds, staff outsourcing, obligation to pay contributions for subcontractors, contracts for specific work, and the employment of board members
- Support in inspections of sick leave and abuses
Legal disputes
Scope:
- Creation of effective process strategies
- Representing clients before courts in all HR matters, including:
- employee dismissals
- salaries, bonuses, overtime, and other benefits
- mobbing, unequal treatment, and discrimination
- contributions to Social Insurance Institution (including matters related to Company Social Benefits Fund, contract contributions, outsourcing, etc.)
- non-compete clauses, conflicts of interest, unfair competition
- workplace accidents
- determination of the existence of an employment relationship – in cases questioning civil law contracts, outsourcing, within corporate groups, etc.
- offenses and crimes in the area of HR law
- participation in mediation proceedings and securing clients in concluded settlements
- representation before other authorities, e.g., Presient of the Office for Data Protection, Voivodeship Labour Office, public prosecutor’s office
Compliance i investigation proceedings
Scope:
- Audits of employers’ compliance with legal regulations
- Internal compliance regulation systems
- Procedures for reporting violations (whistleblowing)
- Codes of ethics and standards of conduct
- Abuse and irregularity prevention programs
- Advisory services in handling reports
- Conducting investigative proceedings concerning undesirable phenomena in employment, including mobbing, discrimination, abuses, and crisis situations
- Legal advice in the field of criminal law and white-collar crime liability in HR, including cases concerning offenses and crimes against employees’ rights, obstruction of union activities, violations of health and safety regulations, and workplace accidents
Personal data protection and artificial intelligence in employment
Scope:
- Advisory services on the processing of personal data of employees, job applicants and former employees
- Compliance audits of personal data processing activities (GDPR audits) in the HR domain, including review of recruitment, personnel and payroll processes
- Drafting and implementation of GDPR documentation (policies, procedures, records of processing activities)
- Advisory services on the lawfulness of employee monitoring (CCTV, email monitoring, IT tools, GPS tracking)
- Support in the event of personal data breaches, including handling notifications to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO)
- Legal advisory services on the use of artificial intelligence-based tools in HR processes (recruitment, employee evaluation, performance management)
- Assessment of the compliance of AI systems with applicable regulations
- Support on automated decision-making and profiling of employees and job applicants
- Drafting of internal policies on the use of AI and algorithms in the workplace
Global mobility & immigration
Scope:
- Legal advice on employing foreigners, including residence and work legalisation
- Posting of employees within the European Union and outside the EU
- Support for employee relocations and international business travels
- Remote work from abroad (workation)
- Coordination of international projects
- Global mobility policies and regulations.
B2B, contracts and other forms of employment
Scope:
- Advice on employment models
- Draft and review of B2B contracts and mandate agreements
- Reclassification risk management
- Intellectual property and confidentiality security
- Preparation and verification of outsourcing agreements
- Review of employment models in terms of tax and contribution aspects
Training sessions
Scope:
We run training courses, workshops, and case studies based on our practical experience. We do not teach from textbooks.
