Criminal Labour law
The firm assists its clients, amongst them are some of the most prominent employers in France, in the management of all criminal and punitive aspects related to the work field:
- Management and prevention of criminal risks alongside employers
- Delegation of powers
- Moral and sexual harassment
- Work related accidents
- Health and safety regulations
- Obstruction
- Discrimination
- Undeclared employment, illegal hiring of personnel, bargaining
- Defamation and insult
- Managing the legal consequences of strikes
The firm has also developed an extensive expertise in investigations, criminal settlements and appealing administrative sanctions delivered by the DREETS.
The firm’s lawyers have an extensive experience in resolving high-stakes labour disputes and in litigations involving employers’ inexcusable conduct, based on their in-depth expertise in these complex matters.
Examples include:
- Representing three senior managers accused of moral harassment following the attempted suicide of a subordinate.
- Representing the financial manager of a major retailer prosecuted for spying on employees.
- Obtaining the criminal conviction, on private prosecutions, of strikers guilty of kidnapping management staff.
- Assisting the Managing Director of a major contractor following the prosecution of a foreign service provider for undeclared work in the air transport sector.
- Representing senior managers prosecuted for obstructing the operation of the CSE.
- Assisting a major social housing landlord in regard to its obligation of duty of care as a contractor with respect to its co-contractors.
- Assisting an agri-food company in the case of an employee’s suicide.
- Conviction of a trade union delegate for moral harassment of a superior.