Our lawyers have years of experience in dealing with collective employment and traditional labor matters and disputes, and are ideally placed to advise, to advise, guide and represent employer clients, both Angolan companies and foreign investment companies.
Whether employers are focused domestically or multi-nationally, the laws relating to an employer’s relations with its workforce are becoming increasingly critical and central to corporate strategy.
Capabilities
- Negotiation and conclusion of labor agreements: Our employment team has great capabilities in drafting employment contracts, service contracts and others, including for senior executives, foreign employees and workers in sectors with regulatory or specific requirements, such as banking and finance, industrials, security and defense, mining and oil and gas. Definition and execution of service orders and contractual instruments to adapt legislative changes.
- Disciplinary procedures: We have experience in bringing disciplinary proceedings against workers in all sectors of economic activity. We proceed with all necessary acts for these procedures, including due diligence and investigations that may result in disciplinary proceedings, worker and witness inquiry, final report writing, and draft decisions.
- Individual and collective negotiations: Our team has extensive experience in negotiating termination of employment contracts with employees, resolving collective disputes, negotiating and drafting of collective labor regulation instruments.
Experience has included advising:
- Several national and multinational companies in restructurings with staff reductions, through agreements with workers, reorganization of services and amendments to employment agreements;
- An oil and gas company in a collective dismissal of hundreds of workers, with appropriate negotiations with the collective representative entities;
- An international mining company in an employee reduction process;
- A company in a collective process of transfer of workers to another area of activity; and
- Regarding the transfer of workers in a corporate restructuring.