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FIDAL has developed considerable expertise in the following fields :

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Employee representation structures |
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• Definition of the scope concerned (business, organisation, economic and social unit, group…)
• Assistance with implementation
• Operating advice (terms for convening notices, disclosures and meetings)
• Monitor attributed powers on a daily basis, as well as during exceptional operations (negotiation and conclusion of collective agreements, reorganisation, site moving and closure)
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Pensions and benefits |
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• Conception and design of social security policies
• Optimisation of pension plans and pension saving plans (implementation, renewal and closure)
• Risk minimisation for benefits plans and personal insurance contracts (assessment of current systems, improvement of existing conditions, design of new plans, choice of insurance)
• Change management: • Restructurings • Acquisitions • Social security for expatriates or impatriates • Social security status of executives • Retiring employees • Compliance with social security and tax limits • Insurance litigation
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Restructuring assistance |
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• Risk minimisation and handling of all the labour law aspects of restructuring from a legal, financial and industrial standpoint: • employment contracts • employee representation structures • labour-management agreements • working time • employee savings, pension and benefit schemes
• Assistance with “GPEC” (mandatory labour-management policies for certain types of companies) and layoffs
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Labour-management negotiations |
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• Assistance defining the scope of the negotiations
• Assistance and advice on negotiation terms
• Negotiating assistance
• Drafting of legal documents
• Risk-minimisation of labour-management agreements
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Individual and collective relations |
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• At an individual level: drafting, execution and termination of employment contracts
• At a collective level: application of collective agreements, implementation and evolution of professional classifications, legal assistance with compensation policies, discrimination prevention
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Employee savings |
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• Study, implementation and monitoring of mandatory and optional profit-sharing schemes
• Assistance with the implementation of a company savings plan (PEE) and/or an employee pension savings plan (PERCO)
• Legal monitoring of employee savings plans’ compliance
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Working time |
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• Analysis of the company’s work schedules
• Assistance with the implementation of new work schedules adapted to the business's requirements, drafting of labour-management documents, the corresponding contractual and non-contractual documents, and negotiations with the representative trade union organisations: adjustment of working time, shift work, etc.
• Assistance with the management of executive working time, drafting of the requisite legal instruments
• Part-time work
• Time savings accounts
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Labour law and social security litigation |
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• Litigation before all courts: labour courts, local courts, district courts, administrative courts, social security affairs tribunals, criminal courts and the labour divisions of the appeal courts
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Health and safety at work |
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• Diagnostic review of current practices in the company
• Operational advice and assistance with implementation (optimisation of the scope of intervention of outside companies, global risk evaluation document, traceability of actions taken)
• Powers of attorney
• Executive training
• Assistance during investigations by the regulatory authorities and with litigation (serious accidents, disputes over occupational accidents and diseases, criminal and civil liability defence)
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Vocational training law |
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• Assistance with negotiating and drafting branch- and company-level agreements
• Design of training plans and usage charts for the DIF (mandatory individual training credits)
• Assistance with audits and litigation
• Implementation of plans to control training costs
• Analysis of "2483" returns
• Training law compliance audits
• Searches for sources of financing
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Due diligence reviews of labour law matters, payroll compliance and the social charge rates for occupational accidents |
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• Performance of due diligence reviews of labour law matters
• Payroll reviews and verification of the base for social security contributions
• Reviews of the social charge rates for occupational accidents
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International mobility |
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• Incorporation of tax, social security and benefits aspects
• Risk minimisation
• Analysis of the existing situation and identification of the difficulties encountered
• Optimisation of tax parameters and obligations
• Choice of the law applicable to employment contracts and compensation packages, identification of collective status and management of employment contracts
• Design and evolution of suitable social security policies, computation of the consequences for the pension and benefit schemes, implementation of corrective actions
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Human Capital |
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• Global approach to compensation policies (from a financial, accounting, legal, tax and labour law standpoint)
• Advice on the conception of low-risk, attractive, optimised compensation packages • Executive compensation • Employee shareholding • International mobility
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