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employment
Schoenherr's labour & employment experts provide legal advice across CEE in all kinds of employment law matters, from the beginning through to the end of employment relationships.
"Schoenherr is very strong at handling complex and sophisticated matters. The team is very responsive and delivers a great work product."
Our employment team covers 12 jurisdictions in CEE and advises on all aspects of employment law from the beginning through to the end of the employment relationship, for both contentious and non-contentious matters.
It focuses on employment issues arising in the course of mergers and acquisitions, transfer of undertakings, workforce and management restructuring, domestic and cross-border transfer of employees, cross-border postings of employees, restructuring of businesses, downsizing and closure of production lines, employment tribunal litigation, workforce restructuring and related negotiations with employees, their representatives and trade unions, as well as general non-contentious employment advice.
our services
- restructuring and reorganisation planning
- transfer of undertakings
- cross border posting of employees
- contentious employment litigation
- compensation structures (executive and non-executive)
- management and employment contracts
- pension plans
- share ownership plans (including stock options)
- tailor-made in-house client seminars
- immigration
- general non-contentious employment advice
newsletter
Austria: VwGH rules that permission is required for purely "virtual" leasing of personnel to non-EEA countries
The Austrian Supreme Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, "VwGH") clarified in a recent decision[1] that leasing employees "remotely" from Austria to a third party based in a non-EEA country constitutes cross-border leasing of employees and requires a special permit. The consequences of this decision affect not only employee leasing agencies or "Employers of Record" but are also significant for groups of companies that "virtually" deploy employees to group companies located in third countries.
newsletter
Slovakia: Has the transposition of the Equal Pay Transparency Directive finally gained momentum?
According to a preliminary legislative notice issued by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic and published on 15 May 2025, the Ministry is preparing a draft law on pay transparency. The aim of this law is to transpose Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms.
roadmap
The evolution of cross-border employee participation in Europe
The Mobility Directive is paving the way for a new era of employee participation rights in Europe. After a lengthy battle, the first ever legal framework for all forms of cross-border reorganisations has been established. How did the new rules evolve and how do they safeguard employee participation?
know-how
LEXOLOGY Getting the Deal Through: Employment: International
Read through the Austrian answers to the employment specific questions.
team
our team
Meet our team of employment lawyers across our offices in Central and Eastern Europe.