End-To-End Advisory in All Aspects of Employment Matters

Navigating Singapore’s evolving employment landscape is challenging for both corporates and individuals. Our Employment team acts for both corporates and C-suite executives and has extensive commercial experience in advising on the full spectrum of employment law related matters.

For Corporate and MNC Clients

For our corporate clients, we recognise the need to strike a balance between legal complexities and practical solutions. Our employment team is committed to providing quality, commercially wise counsel on a wide range of issues, including the drafting of corporate employment policies, employee compensation and benefits such as Employee Share Option Schemes (ESOS) and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP), management of restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and redundancy situations, data privacy, and corporate governance.

• Employment contracts and director’s service agreements
• Drafting of contracts and company policies
• Advice on recruitment
• Employee Grievances
• Employee performance management
• Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP) & Employee Share Option Scheme (ESOS)
• Dismissals (Litigation against unfair dismissals, best practices)
• All workplace investigations relating to employment
• Settlement Agreements
• Retrenchment
• Restrictive covenants
• Matters pertaining to confidentiality
• Advice on employment matters during restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, or reorganisation
• Cross Border Employment Matters
• Whistleblowing
• Non-Compete Matters

By choosing to instruct us, you can expect a level of sophistication, expertise, and commercial insight that few other law firms can expect to deliver in matters relating to employment law in Singapore.

For Partners, Senior Executives and Employees

Our C-suite clients trust us to represent them in employment disputes such as wrongful dismissal and termination. We also support them in non-contentious matters such as negotiating their contracts and advising them on their rights and obligations relating to restrictive covenants, including non-compete/non-solicitation and restraint of trade clauses.

We have a reputation for working with CEOs, founders, board members, senior executives, and key employees who are going up against large corporations, providing practical employment law advice to manage their personal employment law needs.

We help you understand your rights and obligations, provide strategic options, and obtain practical outcomes in situations of extreme stress or reputational risk.

Our team advises on a full range of matters, which includes the following:

• The exit of a senior executive and the founder
• Employee and shareholder restrictive covenants
• Incentives arrangements
• High-value disputes
• Whistleblowing
• Discrimination issues
• Cross-border matters
• Representation in investigations or regulatory proceedings
• Employment disputes or litigation
• Terminations and settlement agreements
• Retrenchment
• Advising Directors of companies on their Rights and Duties
• Flexible working and family-friendly rights

We operate across all sectors, from financial services to healthcare, manufacturing, and construction. Our employment lawyers have a high success rate and significant experience advising our clients, who regularly ask us to act against large employers.