Christine Artus is a partner in the firm's Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice. She advises clients in their acquisitions, mergers, cessions, and reorganizations and accompanies clients in their due diligence, consultation procedure with the works council (“CSE”) as well as the negotiations with the trade unions.
Her general fields of experience cover individual aspects of labor and employment law (i.e., employment contracts, non-competition undertakings, non-solicitation and confidentiality undertakings, commissions and bonus plans, dismissals, settlement agreements, mutual termination agreements, etc.) and collective aspects of labor and employment law (i.e., employee representatives, mandatory profit sharing, voluntary profit sharing, company’s collective agreements, company’s agreements on social and economic unit, etc.). She also assists her clients in their Social Security Audit and judicial and administrative litigations.
Christine has developed significant experience in assisting clients in their restructuring plans, close down and relocations of sites conducting to the implementation of employment saving plans (social plans) and voluntary departure plans. She also assists her clients in their social relationships in collective procedures (i.e., judicial restructuring, safeguard procedure, takeover/cession of activity, judicial liquidation, etc.).
She also advises clients within the tourism and hotels sector of activity on social relationships, hotel management contract, specific social risks (i.e., “extras”, co-employment, illegal lending of workforce, etc.), and on the renovation works.
Based on her 25-year experience in labor and employment law, Christine is a key business partner for her clients that she assists throughout their various projects. She is able to find out pragmatic solutions to their business and legal issues, in particular in case of strikes and situations of social conflicts.
