Companies operating in more than one country may face complex challenges that require deep knowledge of country-specific employment laws and market practice
Employment
Our Nordic employment lawyers operate as a truly integrated team interacting with colleagues across borders. We provide services quickly, cost-efficiently and with the same high quality from any of our offices. Our clients have access to concrete and unique tools, such as GENIE - our Global Employment News, Insights & Events website.
Taking a pragmatic approach, our team provides strategic and operational advice across a full range of employment-related matters. We are highly experienced in the following areas:
- Business transfers, workforce restructurings and outsourcing
- Collective bargaining agreements
- Employment policies and employment contracts
- Dispute resolution and litigation
- Tailor-made incentive programs for executives and other employee groups
- Internal investigations on behalf of employers (white-collar crime or breach of professional secrecy)
- Immigration support
- Data privacy
- Performance issues
In our monthly Nordic Employment Law bulletin our employment lawyers across the Nordic region highlight relevant news and trends on the Nordic employment market scene. The bulletin intends to provide high-level knowledge and insight.
Read our latest publications here.
The employment team operates on a regional, national and global basis, which means that services can be provided cost-effectively with a consistently high service by any of our offices in the Nordic region.
Headcount
The Nordic employment group consists of nearly 20 lawyers across the Nordic region. Worldwide, we have more than 400 lawyers dedicated to employment law-related matters.
Client quotations from legal directories
“DLA Piper’s employment team’s advice is worth every euro.”
A team of "smart people who are academically strong."
“The lawyers are very knowledgeable and answer queries in a timely manner.”
The team is also praised for “effective communication”.
Clients also highlight our lawyers’ “deep knowledge within their field of expertise and good understanding of our business, which provides a strong contribution to acquisitions from a commercial perspective”.
- Advised a leading company offering dockless electric scooter rentals. Our employment team advised on all of its employment law-related matters in more than 12 European jurisdictions. A demonstration of the significant value for clients of our extensive cross-border capabilities not only in the Nordic Region but across the whole of Europe.
- Advised a leading US-based global mass media & entertainment conglomerate on all of the employment law issues associated with its comprehensive corporate reorganisation. DLA Piper has worked closely with the client’s human resources team to provided strategic and operational advice and advising on all aspects of the reorganisation.
- Advised a leading US-based global life sciences company on all of its on-going employment matters in Norway. This includes strategic counsel on matters such as reorganisations; employee benefits; employee claims; and pension issues. We also led a cross-border Nordic Region team on a complex reorganisation of the client’s business across the region.
- Advised a global airline on all of its on-going employment matters in Norway. This has included strategic and legal counsel on a range of disputes and on various claims from employees. Our work on this string of major matters demonstrates our Tier One-level reputation among leading global corporates for their employment law matters.
- Advised a listed Swedish distributor of accessories for IT and data communications with a reorganisation of their subsidiaries throughout the Nordics. The employment team assisted with strategic advice as well as preparation of termination letters and negotiation of settlement agreements with management. The case included a number of dismissals in the Danish, Norwegian and Finnish subsidiaries and were all handled within a very short time frame.
- Represented a Finland-based global social media advertising automation company in all daily employment matters, including, among others, employee and management exits and collective agreement matters. In addition, we also coordinate employment advise given to the client’ subsidiaries cross-border e.g. in Spain, The Netherlands and Poland.
- Represented a Finland-based multinational digital access management company in all daily employment matters, including among other daily advice, employee and management exit negotiation and terminations and collective agreement matters. We also coordinate employment advise given to the client’s subsidiaries cross-border in Spain, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.
