Labour law and corporate immigration

HAVEL & PARTNERS is fully aware of the increasing importance of employment law and human resources management. With respect to the long-term cooperation with Czech, Slovak, and international companies, we understand the complexity of the issues faced by firms in this area. We offer practical solutions based on our extensive legal expertise and experience.

Labour and social security law

We provide our clients with comprehensive legal advisory in the fields of labour law and social security law. We draft in particular labour law documents and expert opinions, represent our clients before judicial and administrative authorities, or provide partial consultations in urgent matters.

We have vast experience with advising in a whole range of day-to-day matters in the workplace. We understand how HR teams and the management of our clients work and we know how important it is for companies to stay on top in the ever-changing and constantly evolving HR area. For that reason, our team of specialised experts provides not only traditional but also specific labour law and HR management services including the following:

• drafting management, employment and other agreements;
• drafting work rules and other internal regulations;
• employee remuneration;
• ensuring and implementing the principles of equal opportunities;
• discrimination;
• employee layoffs including negotiations and prevention of judicial disputes;
• labour law litigations with employees/executives;
• agency employment;
• collective bargaining agreements, negotiating and communicating with trade unions;
• company restructuring;
• HR audits;
• compliance programmes;
• whistleblowing;
• internal investigation of unlawful acts by employees;
• the Civil Service Act;
• tailored training/workshops.

Our labour law team has extensive experience in the statutory regulation of employment relations between expatriate employees and domestic employers as well as between Czech employees and foreign employers, including the selection of the appropriate law and jurisdiction to govern the relevant employment relationships and subsequent tax optimizations.

Immigration law

Our law firm also provides comprehensive legal support to employers and employees (as well as to their family members) with regards to immigration law. Thanks to our extensive experience with cross-border projects, our highly specialised team is able to efficiently create the most suitable structure of the relocation plan, and assess the social security and tax aspects, as well as the choice of law that is to temporarily govern the contractual relationship. Besides that we ensure comprehensive preparation of all applications and underlying documentation, including certified translations, namely for the following areas:

EU/EEA citizens and their family members

• meeting the notification duties when commencing and terminating employment
• temporary and permanent residence
• citizenship
• secondments to the Czech Republic and Slovakia
• coordination of secondments of employees from the Czech Republic and Slovakia abroad (in cooperation with law firms abroad)
• tax assessments
• providing the A1 certificate

Non-EU citizens

• employment cards (dual and non-dual character)
• recognition of degrees from foreign schools in the Czech Republic
• Schengen visas for stays up to 90 days (for employment, business, etc.)
• long-term visas for stays over 90 days
• secondments to the Czech Republic and Slovakia
• intra-corporate employee transfer card
• visa for seasonal employment
• long-term residence, including long-term residence permit for making investments
• permanent residence, including notification duties when commencing or terminating employment
• citizenship
• representation before administrative courts (expatriation, etc.)
• blue card
• tax assessments

L&E Global

As an affiliated member of the L&E Global network, we offer our clients cross-border labour and employment law services, including the efficient handling of international labour and employment matters and multi-jurisdictional projects.