The Employment Practice Group provides legal assistance to clients from different fields, many of which carry out their activities in an international environment.

The Group's expertise extends to all types of labour law problems, i.e. contracts, collective agreements and the impact of strategic corporate decisions. Additionally, this practice group advises clients on immigration issues, as well as agency agreements, employment benefits and social security issues.

Areas of Expertise
In individual and collective employment  relationships, the Group's role encompasses both legal advice and litigation, in the following areas:

Employment

• Employment contracts, non-competition agreements and confidentiality agreements
• Stock options
• Profit-sharing
• Employee representation
• Social security audits
• Employee termination and separation agreements
• Employment policies
• Restructuring and collective redundancies
• Plant closures and geographical relocations
• Audits
• Collective bargaining procedures

Immigration

• Temporary foreign assignment or secondment of employees, trainees, managers and corporate officers
• Expatriation of executives and employees
• Admission of foreign nationals into Italy
• Applications for authorisations such as residence permits, commercial cards and work authorisation permits
• Tax status of expatriates and other foreigners in Italy