Employment / Labor Law Litigation
Our firm accompanies clients from the initial stages of a labor dispute and represents them in various types of legal proceedings.
Clients include both local and foreign companies and employers. We advise these clients on a wide range of labor litigation: disputes between employees and employers, claims for wages, applications for class action lawsuits, restriction and prevention of competition and violation of non-compete clauses, intellectual property and trade secrets, discrimination claims, sexual harassment prevention and the implementation of sexual harassment law, employee options, interpretation of complex bonus clauses, collective disputes due to structural changes or a breach of collective agreements, initial employee unionization, etc.
Our firm accompanies clients from the pre-conflict stages, when contacting the employee or when receiving a pre-claim warning letter, and during all types of legal and judicial proceedings.
We represent our clients before the Regional and National Labor Court, various government agencies (the Ministries of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services, and the Interior), and the various entities involved in settlement and dispute resolution, as well as during arbitration and mediation proceedings.
News and updates - Employment / Labor Law Litigation:
Contractors' Lawsuits for Recognition of Employment Relationship: Changing the Rules of the Game
One of the possible contractual forms between parties is the provision of services as an independent contractor (in colloquial terms, a freelancer). This type of contracting is not particularly favored by labor courts, which seek, as a policy matter, to apply employment relations in cases involving claims of the existence of an employee-employer relationship. Once in a while, labor courts establish new rules on recognizing employment relationships and on retroactive calculation of the rights of independent contractors as employees.
Israel: Workplace Sexual Harassment – Disclosure of Materials in Internal Investigations
A new court ruling may require employers to disclose materials collected during investigations into incidents of sexual harassment.
Israel's National Labor Court Protects Right to Organize
In September, Israel's National Labor Court dismissed an appeal by the Café Noir restaurant and affirmed the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court’s judgment, which held that the restaurant must pay NIS 300,000 compensation for infringing on its employees’ right to organize.
Employment / Labor Law Litigation
Our firm accompanies clients from the initial stages of a labor dispute and represents them in various types of legal proceedings.
Clients include both local and foreign companies and employers. We advise these clients on a wide range of labor litigation: disputes between employees and employers, claims for wages, applications for class action lawsuits, restriction and prevention of competition and violation of non-compete clauses, intellectual property and trade secrets, discrimination claims, sexual harassment prevention and the implementation of sexual harassment law, employee options, interpretation of complex bonus clauses, collective disputes due to structural changes or a breach of collective agreements, initial employee unionization, etc.
Our firm accompanies clients from the pre-conflict stages, when contacting the employee or when receiving a pre-claim warning letter, and during all types of legal and judicial proceedings.
We represent our clients before the Regional and National Labor Court, various government agencies (the Ministries of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services, and the Interior), and the various entities involved in settlement and dispute resolution, as well as during arbitration and mediation proceedings.
News and updates - Employment:
Contractors' Lawsuits for Recognition of Employment Relationship: Changing the Rules of the Game
One of the possible contractual forms between parties is the provision of services as an independent contractor (in colloquial terms, a freelancer). This type of contracting is not particularly favored by labor courts, which seek, as a policy matter, to apply employment relations in cases involving claims of the existence of an employee-employer relationship. Once in a while, labor courts establish new rules on recognizing employment relationships and on retroactive calculation of the rights of independent contractors as employees.
Israel: Workplace Sexual Harassment – Disclosure of Materials in Internal Investigations
A new court ruling may require employers to disclose materials collected during investigations into incidents of sexual harassment.
Israel's National Labor Court Protects Right to Organize
In September, Israel's National Labor Court dismissed an appeal by the Café Noir restaurant and affirmed the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court’s judgment, which held that the restaurant must pay NIS 300,000 compensation for infringing on its employees’ right to organize.