Employment & Administrative Law
Our dedicated team of lawyers assist employers to effectively manage legal matters relating to Employment and Industrial Relations. As the first firm in the country to establish a focused-driven team catering exclusively to the practice of employment and administrative law, we have a rich and diversified experience in this area.
The firm’s early practitioners before the Industrial Court include prolific legal personalities such as Dato’ Mahadev Shankar and Dato’ V. L. Kandan, followed by V. T. Nathan in the early 1970s who became the firm’s first lawyer to undertake a fully specialised practice in Industrial Relations. Sivabalah Nadarajah who currently heads this pioneering Practice Group joined the team in 1984 and is renowned in the employment law landscape.
Today, our Employment & Administrative Law Practice Group continues to offer comprehensive representation and assistance to clients involved in various stages of employment-related dispute resolution. We have been engaged in cases that have contributed to the evolution and expansion of administrative law in this country. The practice continues to keep abreast of changes to the law to regularly advise clients on the nature and implications of key amendments.
Within this practice, we offer strategic legal advice in:
- Terms and Conditions of Employment
- Employee Disciplinary Actions and Employment Termination
- Collective Bargaining and Collective Agreements
- Complex Employment Issues
- Industrial Actions (Strikes and Pickets)
- Union Issues (Union Recognition and Scope of Union Representation)
- Legal Representation for Employers (before Employment Tribunals, various levels of the judicial hierarchy, Quasi-Criminal proceedings)
- M&A HR & Restructuring (Retrenchment, Business Sale/Integration, Business Closure, Harmonization of Benefits)
- Separation Schemes (Voluntary Separation and Mutual Separation Schemes as well as Early Retirement)
- Practical Skills Training & Development
- Challenging Industrial Court Awards and Labour decisions
- HR Related Administrative Law Issues