EMPLOYMENT, BENEFITS AND PENSIONS

Conscious of the need to promote an accurate and effective management of employment relations between employers and employees in order to optimise human resources and ensure the levels of high competition of companies FCB&A has the required expertise and experience to make possible the provision of a full range of services, namely, in the following matters:

• Advice on general and strategic employment and social security issues.
• Legal support on companies' restructuring processes, including collective dismissals and individual redundancies, termination by mutual consent and lay-off.
• Review and drafting of individual employment contracts, temporary employment contracts, employee's assignment contracts and services contracts.
• Management of employment contracts (including functional and geographical mobility, change of remuneration, fringe benefits and preparation of bonus incentive plans and stock option purchase plans).
• Tax and social security issues, from registration to management and disputes.
• Labour due diligence.
• Defence in court proceedings, arbitration committees and administrative entities involving employment related claims and suits filed by employees, Unions and Portuguese Labour Authority.
• Assistance in meetings with Unions, Class Associations and Regional Labour Offices.
• Accidents at the workplace and employer's obligations in relation to Health and Safety at the workplace.
• Assistance on hiring of foreign employees and legalisation processes.