Advise and develop policies on:

• Confidentiality
• Data protection and transfers
• Discrimination
• Employees’ works and inventions
• Inclusion and diversity, Gender Parity
• Non-compete
• Privacy in traditional and virtual workplace
• Social Media
• Substance abuse
• Work from home and modus
• Social insurance
• Social security

• Advise and design all types of employee benefits and executive compensation plans, including stock options, retirement plans, incentive plans, tax saving plans, equity and cash-based compensation plans
• Regulatory compliance and tax advice on the introduction of the compensation plans

• Best practice discipline
• Compliance advice
• Implementation process and procedures
• Employer’s liability

• Ownership of Employees’ works and inventions
• Confidential information, trade secrets
• Restrictive covenants

• Defend or prosecute claims on
  • Breach of confidentiality
  • Breach of restrictive covenants
  • Breach of workplace policies
  • Settlement agreements
  • Wrongful termination
  • Whistleblower actions
• Industrial disputes

• Investigations on
  • Corporate theft
  • Corruption and tax fraud
  • Diversion of business
  • Employee and executive fraud
  • Misappropriation of intellectual property rights and trade secrets
  • White collar crime
• Advise on breach of workplace policies

• Collective bargaining
• Crisis management
• Constructive dismissal
• Labour relations
• Negotiation with labour unions
• Regulatory notice requirements
• Separation agreements
• Union rights
• Workforce reorganisation

• Employment due diligence for pre-acquisitions and business transfers
• Transitioning of employees

• Dual employment and tax planning advice
• Expatriate assignments and cross border issues on immigration and tax benefits planning
• Work and dependant visas, visa extensions

• Develop tailored programmes and manuals for good practices of labour relations
• Conduct regular employment audits

• Counsel to MNC in structuring employment handbook and related workplace policies with a view to minimise exposure to claims for unfair/wrongful dismissal and liability of the management to unit crimes, and advise on means to overcome regulatory hurdles in the event of disputes
• Represent a foreign financial institution in devising labour contracts, company handbook and various workplace policies for its mainland subsidiary
• Counsel to MNC on the collection and use of biometric information of the employees of its Mainland subsidiary to comply with the requirements of personal data protection laws and devising related workplace policy
• Counsel to foreign business organization on intended variation of payment policy of its China-based foreign chief representative. We advised on the cross-border legal aspects of the employment documents and the risk and compliance issues related to such variation

• Counsel to leading financial services companies on the rolling out of employee equity and cash-based incentive plans and advising on the related regulatory and tax considerations, and enforceability of clawback and malus provisions, competitive activity restrictions
• OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Advising MNC in intended implementation of a hearing conservation program on workplace noise in Hong Kong and advising on workplace health and safety considerations.
• PROTECTION OF EMPLOYERS’ PROPRIETARY INTERESTS
• Represent a Hong Kong employer on immediate actions restraining a departing employee’s distribution of company’s trade secrets and confidential information

• provide legal advice on the implementation of a workplace noise hearing protection plan for a multinational company in Hong Kong, and provide consultation on workplace health and safety considerations.

• take immediate legal action on behalf of Hong Kong employers to restrict departing employees from disclosing company trade secrets and confidential information

• Counsel to MNC in enforcement of non-compete and confidentiality provisions against former senior employee joining a competitor in labour arbitration proceedings in Mainland
• Counsel to Hong Kong retail group in the handling of a disability discrimination claim by a former employee to the Equal Opportunities Commission

• Counsel to MNC on disciplinary actions against PRC employee for continued absence from work and serious breach of company policies
• Represent a Hong Kong employer on immediate actions restraining a departing employee’s distribution of company’s trade secrets and confidential information
• Counsel to a Hong Kong employer in the summary dismissal of an employee on the ground of abuse of the hybrid workplace policy
• Counsel to MNC in negotiations with its PRC employee for mutual separation of employment with separation package on the ground of a major change in objective circumstances
• Counsel to MNC in an investigation of an unfair dismissal claim of an employee. We conduct interviews with several Hong Kong employees and provide assessment on the legality of the termination with our recommendations of measures for future implementation

• Counsel to MNC in conducting HR due diligence pursuant to an overseas merger of US companies which includes a Hong Kong subsidiary. We advised on the merger agreement and the legal obligations towards existing employees for effecting proposed transfer of employment to a newly established company
• Counsel to global retail group on the employment aspects in the sale of its Hong Kong business. We provided pre-sale advice on the legal implications to the existing employees upon the sale and devised documentation for both employee transfer and redundancy for smooth transition of the business

• Represent MNC for devising efficient tax planning scheme for its expatriate director under related double taxation treaty with Hong Kong
• Counsel to MNC on cross-border secondment of Hong Kong senior management to its Mainland subsidiary. Advice on dual-jurisdictional tax issues to achieve optimal tax benefits
• Represent global software company in advising and handling Hong Kong employment and dependant visas for its foreign employees

• Represent global hotel group in performing employment audits of its Hong Kong workplace policies to ensure full legal compliance