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Ongoing Support and Advice for Companies

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The Employment Law Department at S. Horowitz provides legal and strategic counsel and support on all matters and steps related to its clients’ working relations with their employees. The department provides professional, prompt and precise advice on questions and issues arising in the day-to-day management of companies regardless of the business sector in which they operate. The ultimate goal of the department’s team is to help its clients maintain a healthy working environment and ensure their compliance with the provisions of applicable law, thereby essentially staving off labor disputes before they even materialize.

The department also advises on issues related to workforce reorganization and accompanies private institutions, public entities and multinational companies in relation to mergers and acquisitions (M&As), downsizing, reorganization and retirement plans. The department’s team is committed to ensuring the compliance by clients with all Israeli employment law provisions, the importance of which is further reinforced, particularly during periods of economic and global changes.

 

The department’s team assists its clients in the planning and implementation of downsizing programs entailing company recovery plans, policy changes, M&As and workforce reorganization of whatsoever scope. The team’s expertise includes full mastery of the intricacies of engaging employees at all stages, from hiring to termination, including the preparation of applicable employment/termination of employment agreements, as well as handling all organizational changes, both small and large, associated with the routine and day-to-day operations of a company.

 

Since many of the department’s clients operate in sectors where the working relations are regulated by a system of collective agreements and extension orders, the department’s team demonstrates full proficiency and expertise on these matters as well.

The department’s team has rich and diverse experience in providing efficient, prompt and precise advice correlating with the client’s changing needs, at all times, as part of its routine operations as well as in cases of conflict situations.

  • Ongoing Management of a Proper Work Routine: The department routinely advises on any development arising in connection with the employer-employee working relationship and at all stages of the employment, from the recruitment process, through the drafting and execution of employment agreements, updating same and accompanying the process of termination of the employment, including in “extreme” cases requiring a prompt and precise approach or response to the legal instances so as to facilitate a proper work routine.

 

  • Managing or Advising on Procedures for Investigating Sexual Harassment and Workplace Abuse Complaints: The department’s team has vast knowledge and experience with regard to managing the procedures for investigating sexual harassment or workplace abuse complaints. The team also conducts periodic training for its clients and guides them on how to maintain a healthy working environment.

 

  • Planning Downsizing Procedures and Changes in the Workforce: Building and implementing programs for workforce reduction, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) or workforce reorganization, while gaining a full and precise understanding of the client’s needs. The department’s team accompanies the client through all the stages of the workforce reorganization process, from drafting the actual program to having a lawyer from the department present personally at the hearing scheduled for employees whose employment is being terminated, if deemed necessary.

"The team are very experienced. It's obvious they enjoy a great deal of respect from the labor court judges, which enables them to hammer their points."

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  • Compliance with and Implementation of Regulatory Provisions: Broad knowledge and proficient control of provisions of law and extension orders in order to maintain a healthy and appropriate working environment for the department’s clients.

 

  • Legal Representation: Managing legal proceedings from the outset until their conclusion, before all the competent legal instances. Accompaniment in mediation and arbitration processes, as well as in proceedings before the various regulatory committees. The department has vast experience in handling organizational measures, on both sides of the divide – both with respect to unions and employers.

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