HR Legal

Advice tailored to your business

HR Legal provides you with support for your questions concerning social and labour law and the challenges associated with recruiting, hiring and dismissing staff.

While you focus on your core business, HR Legal shows you the way through the law. We propose options and alternatives and make for you an assessment of the risks; we firmly believe that prevention is better than cure. This proactive and involved approach is what sets us apart from other service providers.

Our experienced legal experts are at your disposal for:

• Advice that is pragmatic and points you in the right direction
• Personal support
• Solutions tailored to your business
• Discreet and confidential approach
• Straightforward and no-nonsense style of working and communicating

How can we help you?

Employment law & employment relations

We advise and support on all matters relating to employment law and employment relations, with a strong focus on workable solutions and legal certainty:

• Start of employment: drafting and review of employment contracts, work rules, car policy, expense policy and other internal policies
• Flexible employment: advice on working time arrangements, overtime, students, flexi-jobs
• Optimisation of remuneration policy: composition of remuneration packages, retention of key employees, flexible remuneration, bonus schemes, share options, cost structures, company car policy, mobility budget
• Payroll coordination
• Compliance and advice on social and employment legislation
• Collaboration with self-employed service providers

Cross-border employment

We advise employers on the complex regulations relating to (international) social security and cross-border employment:

• Determination of the applicable social security system
• Drafting of secondment agreements
• Mandatory provisions of social and employment law
• LIMOSA notifications, A1 certificates
• Labour migration (single permit, professional cards for self-employed persons)
• International payroll coordination
• Salary split, expatriate regime

Compliance & risk analysis

We ensure that employers comply with their legal obligations and help identify risks in a timely manner:

• Advice on legislative changes
• Audit and review of HR processes and payroll (social due diligence)
• Preparation for and assistance during social inspections (social security, labour inspection, wellbeing at work)
• Social and employment law health check of the organisation

Social dialogue & disputes with employees

We support employers with advice and guidance on social dialogue, dismissal files and disputes with employees:

• Relations with representative employee organisations
• Drafting and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements
• Support with social elections procedures
• Advice on termination of employment: sensitive dismissals, dismissal cost budgeting (individual or collective), collective redundancies, business closures
• Assistance in judicial proceedings
• Mediation