LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

Herzog, Fox & Neeman’s labour and employment team offers a full range of legal services to the human resources divisions of international and local companies. HFN’s employment law practice is highly diversified, representing clients from sectors as disparate as multinational financial institutions, the high-tech industry and telecommunications, medical manufacturers, and kibbutz organisations.

An integrated team approach and the global nature of the practice at HFN enable an interdisciplinary strategy that meets all the legal commercial needs of both domestic and multinational clients. Each member of the employment team brings to the transaction extensive knowledge of employment law as well as related practice areas, especially corporate, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and tax.

HFN’s employment law team provides a broad spectrum of advice on all aspects of labour law and employee benefits, including

Advising on personal contracts, binding practices, and general and specific collective bargaining agreements;

Advising on employment law issues in the context of merger, acquisition, or reorganisation transactions;

Guiding and advising clients concerning on-going employment relations, secrecy and non-competition issues, and human resources considerations in the context of mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions;

Representing clients in labour court litigation;

Assisting non-Israeli corporations in the absorption of Israeli employees into their employment and compensation programs, and in the adaptation of the latter to the requirements of Israeli law;

Advising with respect to relocation packages for Israeli and non-Israeli employees, including immigration and personal taxation issues;

Arranging work permits for specialists and executive foreign employees;

Advising clients on a full range of employee benefit plans, including executive compensation programs, stock bonuses, stock options, profit sharing and other incentive programs.