Our team has years of combined experience advising clients across a complete spectrum of employment-related issues. This enables us to anticipate disputes that may arise at various stages of employment, including at termination or on a restructuring level.
WHAT
Employment termination, employee resignation, redundancy, summary dismissal, unreasonable dismissal, wrongful dismissal, unlawful dismissal, constructive dismissal, complex termination, mutual termination agreement, payment in lieu of notice, final entitlements calculation, annual leave pay, severance and long-service payments, classification of bonuses and incentives as wages, deductions from wages, cross-border employment restructuring, employee transfer, secondment of employees.
OF NOTE
Calculation of final payments to be made to the employee upon termination is tricky. The law surrounding the definition of wages is complex and wages calculation is key to determining entitlements upon termination.
EXPERIENCE
COMPLEX TERMINATION
Advising a group on the termination of a senior executive who was also a director and shareholder of the Hong Kong company. Read about When termination gets tricky: terminating an employee, director and shareholder
EMPLOYEE THEFT
Advising a Hong Kong company in relation to their investigation of suspected theft by an employee, including suspension and dismissal.
KEY EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT TERMS
Advising a group on the employment terms applicable to senior executives across the Asia-Pacific region, working with correspondents to ensure the consistency and enforceability of the employment contracts across the region.