| Flexible Compliance |
| People are essential to your business.
When it comes to employing them, however, few things are
ever simple. Their legal rights, personal needs and cultural
expectations present both opportunities and risks. |
| The laws and regulations governing relationships
between employers and employees are complex, confusing and
sometimes contradictory. If you don't know your rights —
or respect theirs — your productivity, profitability
and reputation can all suffer. |
| At SLSP, we understand that business
success requires legally sound, strategically savvy labor
and employment policies and practices. Our focus is to help
employers comply with the law, prevent unwanted issues from
arising and continuously adapt to the realities of an intensely
competitive global economy. |
| How
We Can Help |
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Workplace issues and policies.
We help implement, monitor and enforce policies dealing
with sexual harassment, discrimination, drug and alcohol
testing, employee privacy and family and medical leave. |
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Labour relations. We help with wage and
hour issues, unionizing activities, collective bargaining,
and interpretation of work rules, grievances and industrial
disputes. |
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Business immigration and executive transfer.
We help facilitate expatriate assignments, from compliance
with immigration and employment laws to benefits and tax
planning. |
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Terminations and layoffs. We provide
counsel on separation agreements, as well as the legal and
regulatory notice requirements associated with reductions
in force and plant closings. |
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Employment-related litigation. We defend
and prosecute claims of wrongful discharge, discrimination,
harassment, whistleblower actions and protection of intellectual
property. |
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Employee benefits and executive compensation.
We design, implement and administer all types of employee
benefits and executive compensation programs. |
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Pension’s law. We provide practical
counseling to sponsoring employers, trustees and plan administrators
involved in running occupational pension plans on all aspects
of legislative, regulatory and fiscal requirements. |
| Global equity services.
We design, implement and maintain equity based
compensation for employees, consultants and directors. |
