Collective agreements and labour disputes (strikes)
Employment contract design
Incentive and care programmes
Employee data protection
Regulatory procedures
Seminars and in-house training
Process control / litigation
Restructuring and reorganisation
ALISTAIR Legal will advise and support you in the planning, strategy and implementation of new structures – whether this concerns the establishment of a new company, new locations or the closure and relocation of sites or other operational changes.
We will also support you on temporary projects, such as applications for short-time workers’ allowance and all the issues and official requirements related to this, or on the temporary deployment of external third parties (personnel leasing, interim management, etc.).
Reducing staffing levels
ALISTAIR Legal will provide you with advice and support you in the planning, strategy and implementation of measures for the reduction of personnel, regardless of the scope.
Working together with you, we will draw up and negotiate the termination and settlement agreements with your employees.
We will prepare the necessary termination processes for you, advise you on both the reasons for termination and termination strategies and support you in this regard, both in and out of court. In particular, we can provide you with the following services:
oadvance social welfare-related selection in the event of redundancies due to operational reasons,
works council hearings and, where necessary, hearings for your representatives for the disabled, and / or
any necessary mass dismissal and consultation procedures.
We will also advise you on alternative structuring options and their implementation (e.g. establishment of transfer companies etc.).
Leasing employees
ALISTAIR Legal will advise and represent you in the planning, strategy and implementation of the deployment of external staff, both on the client and contractor side, as well as in dealing with any legal infringements and liability issues.
We can support you in the drawing-up of your framework contracts and conduct the application procedure for the permit to lease temporary workers at the Employment Agency. In particular, if a temporary permit is due to be extended, we will help you with the audit.
Transfer of business
ALISTAIR Legal will advise you on your rights and obligations when buying or selling a company, or parts of a company, and will work with you to plan, develop and implement a smooth transfer of business.
Do you want to avoid a transfer of business? ALISTAIR Legal will advise and work with you to structure the process.
Negotiations with works councils
ALISTAIR Legal will provide you with advice and support you in your negotiations with your works council. We will develop efficient solutions that will allow you to swiftly and successfully achieve your goals, whether this involves company agreements, negotiations before the conciliation office or in negotiations on balancing interests and social planning.
Collective agreements and labour disputes (strikes)
ALISTAIR Legal will advise you on the relevant collective agreements, their interpretation and scope for action.
We will support you whenever you enter, change or leave the collective agreement system and / or when you are looking for new structuring options.
We will support you in defending yourself against strikes, in developing prevention strategies and in collective bargaining with unions.
Employment contract design
ALISTAIR Legal will provide you with advice and support you in the conclusion, design and/or modification of employment contracts for your staff. Our solutions are tailor-made and solution-oriented. They allow for swift action and are based on the current case law pertaining to general terms and conditions control.
We will also advise and support you in the planning, strategy and implementation of flexible working time and workplace models (e.g. home office, crowdworking etc.), especially with a focus on the data protection risks for employers.
Incentive and care programmes
ALISTAIR Legal will provide you with advice and support you in the planning, strategy and implementation of incentive and pension programmes at remuneration, equity or pension level (e.g. ESOP, company pensions).
We will also be happy to make adjustments and modifications to your existing models. In this context, we will focus on the collective agreements applicable to you, the co-determination rights of the works council, the company pension regulations and the individual employment contract design options within your company.
Employee data protection
ALISTAIR Legal will advise you on all aspects of employee data protection and on the requirements of the GDPR with regard to the handling of personal data within your company.
We will provide you with advice and support in terms of the legally secure handling of your employee data as well as requests for information and deletion on the part of your employees.
We will support you in the design of a proper documentation situation for your data processing procedures and in the design of data protection-relevant contracts and guidelines.
Our team not only has specialists specialising in data protection, but also a trained and certified data protection specialist, who can be made available to you as an external data protection officer.
Regulatory procedures
Should you be subject to an audit and control procedure by a supervisory authority (state data protection officers), ALISTAIR Legal will provide you with advice and support you throughout Germany with regard to such supervisory procedures.
We will provide you with advice and support you in the preparation of inspection and control procedures for supervisory authorities and in the handling of GDPR violations and liability issues.
Seminars and in-house training
ALISTAIR Legal can provide you with seminars and in-house training for your employees on all topics of individual and collective employment law.
All of our expert lawyers have many years of experience as lecturers at the Paritätische Akademie Berlin and deliver annual seminars on all topics of individual and collective employment law.
Process control / litigation
Employment law without legal proceedings is unthinkable. For us, the core of our consultation is successful management of proceedings.
At ALISTAIR Legal, every lawyer has many years of experience of representing clients before all forms of labour tribunals (ArbG, LAG and BAG) and civil courts (LG and OLG). We will successfully support you in all termination disputes and other legal proceedings concerning your employees (both in individual and mass proceedings) as well as in disputes under works constitution law and collective bargaining law of any kind.
All of ALISTAIR Legal’s specialist lawyers are long-standing and successful practitioners, with particular expertise in appeal, audit and evidence law.
