Our lawyers represent clients in a wide range of employment disputes and understand the legal, business and procedural developments in Angola and beyond.
Through innovative dispute resolution strategies and effective case management, we aim to identify and execute the most advantageous business-oriented solutions, either by pursuing or defending litigation or arbitration proceedings, or through alternative methods, such as mediation.
Capabilities
- We represent our clients in labor lawsuits before the labor court, the higher courts and the Supreme Court.
- We represent our clients in criminal, civil and corporate proceedings that result from non-compliance and breach of employment obligations.
- We represent our clients before the labor regulatory authorities, whether in extrajudicial, administrative or judicial proceedings that may be instituted for non-compliance with labor laws.
Experience has included advising:
- In labor court proceedings brought by workers who are dismissed in disciplinary proceedings and who go to court to challenge the dismissal decision;
- In decisions to terminate employment contracts with expatriate senior executives that are challenged in court;
- In labor court proceedings concerning transfer of workers from manpower companies to workers' user companies;
- The CEO of a global multinational health group on his departure from the company upon termination of employment after a restructuring exercise;
- A large national company on several judicial processes filed by employees for termination of contracts; and
- In criminal proceedings presented by various industrial, real estate, technological, banking and financial companies against their workers for falsification of documents, theft of money, products and assets, for fraud and for breach of corporate and industrial secrets.