HR & employment
Swiss employment law, incentive plans and the difficult conversations in between.
Swiss employment law is comparatively liberal, which lulls employers into informality until a termination, a bonus dispute or a social-security audit makes the informality expensive. We put the basics in writing and handle the exits properly.
What we do
Contracts and policies
Employment contracts, executive agreements, non-competes that hold up, home-office and IT policies, and employee handbooks.
Incentive and participation plans
Employee share and option plans, phantom shares and bonus schemes, drafted with the Swiss tax and social-security treatment considered up front.
Terminations and disputes
Termination strategy, settlement agreements, abusive-dismissal risk assessment, mass redundancy procedures and representation before labour courts.
Cross-border and compliance
Posted workers, frontier commuters, remote work across borders, permit questions, working-time records and social-security coordination.
Typical situations we are called in for
- You need to part ways with an employee and want the risk assessed first
- Key employees should participate in the company's upside
- Staff work remotely from another country and nobody has checked what that means legally
- Contracts and policies have not been updated since the company was ten people
Discuss your matter
Tell us briefly what you are dealing with. We will point you to the lawyer in the network who handles this kind of matter day to day.