Our team has extensive experience in handling employment issues. We offer our clients strategic employment advice and assist them in planning and decision-making. Employees are a valuable asset and the frequently changing employment law in Greece means it is of the outmost importance for any company to stay abreast of changes and understand their full impact.

At Your Legal Partners, we recognise the need for timely commercial advice and solutions to employment law issues. Prominent companies trust us to advise them on a wide variety of issues, ranging from day-to-day advice to strategically sensitive restructuring operations and disputes. We advise on all employment issues relating to:

  • Drafting employment contracts for Greek national or expatriates and co-ordination of standard contracts used by multinational companies.
  • Negotiating with trade unions and drafting collective employment agreements including European Works Council agreements.
  • Preparing internal work regulation and human resources policies.
  • Providing expert advice on restructuring procedures (including analysis and consultation about collective redundancies, voluntary redundancy packages, collective transfers, secondments etc).
  • Formation of stock option structures.
  • Advising on health and safety in the workplace.
  • Disputes arising from employment contracts.
  • Advising on immigration and permanent residency.

Latest News & Works

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Impact of COVID-19 in employment relationships in the hotel sector

We are advising clients in the hotel industry on a variety of issues arising from the coronavirus outbreak.

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Advising a major retailer on managerial contracts

Our team supports Levis on various employment matters, including termination issues, as well as on issues arising from the coronavirus outbreak.

“The team combines extensive experience of many sectors with great responsiveness on client needs and requests”

“Professionalism, eager and available to assist clients. Able to find solutions to every problem.”

Legal 500 2020

Publications

Key points of Greece’s new labor law amendment

Health and Safety at the workplace: Employer’s rights and obligations in Greece in the light of the Covid-19 viral challenge