Employment / Labor law litigation
The firm represents employers from the first stages of the labor dispute (prelitigation) and in all types of legal proceedings and before all legal tribunals.
Our firm represents companies and employers in a variety of labor law disputes, including employee-employer labor disputes over claims on wages, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, limiting and preventing competition and noncompete clause violations, intellectual property and trade secrets, employees’ entitlement to receive options, interpreting complex bonus clauses, collective disputes on restructuring or violations of collective agreements, initial unionization processes, and more.
We represent our clients before all government agencies, including the National Labor Court and the regional labor courts; the Ministry of Labor, Welfare, and Social Services; the Ministry of the Interior; various functions engaged in resolving and settling labor disputes; and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Insights & News - Employment / Labor law litigation:
Lawful Employment Termination in a Changing Labor Market
Employers must be diligent about complying with Israeli labor law and case law when dismissing employees, even during layoffs and reorganization processes, including employees’ statutory rights to a dismissal hearing with their lawyer present.
Substantial Damages to an Employee for Unlawful Termination and Defamation
A regional labor court found an employer’s conduct did not comply with the law’s provisions on proper termination, and also harmed a longtime employee’s good name.
New Precedent in Israel – Abuse of a Position of Influence and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
In the case in question, there was no abuse of authority in the work relationship between the defendant and the complainant, since the complainant was not subordinate to the defendant. However, the defendant abused his position of influence over the complainant, obligating the employer to conduct investigation in accordance with a different set of standards.
Employment / Labor law litigation
The firm represents employers from the first stages of the labor dispute (prelitigation) and in all types of legal proceedings and before all legal tribunals.
Our firm represents companies and employers in a variety of labor law disputes, including employee-employer labor disputes over claims on wages, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, limiting and preventing competition and noncompete clause violations, intellectual property and trade secrets, employees’ entitlement to receive options, interpreting complex bonus clauses, collective disputes on restructuring or violations of collective agreements, initial unionization processes, and more.
We represent our clients before all government agencies, including the National Labor Court and the regional labor courts; the Ministry of Labor, Welfare, and Social Services; the Ministry of the Interior; various functions engaged in resolving and settling labor disputes; and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Insights & News - Employment:
Lawful Employment Termination in a Changing Labor Market
Employers must be diligent about complying with Israeli labor law and case law when dismissing employees, even during layoffs and reorganization processes, including employees’ statutory rights to a dismissal hearing with their lawyer present.
Substantial Damages to an Employee for Unlawful Termination and Defamation
A regional labor court found an employer’s conduct did not comply with the law’s provisions on proper termination, and also harmed a longtime employee’s good name.
New Precedent in Israel – Abuse of a Position of Influence and Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
In the case in question, there was no abuse of authority in the work relationship between the defendant and the complainant, since the complainant was not subordinate to the defendant. However, the defendant abused his position of influence over the complainant, obligating the employer to conduct investigation in accordance with a different set of standards.