Al-Faqih employment team has a nationally and internationally well-recognised reputation in laour and employment related practice. Our specialist advocates provide a full range of professional legal services concerning labour and employment issues including advisory work, drafting and litigation. We have advised foreign companies intending to establish a presence in Oman on employment issues and on compliance with Oman employment law. We have drafted a diverse range of agreements and other legal documents to represent employment relationships, including contracts of service, consultancy agreements and agreements for hiring independent contractors.
We understand that our clients’ interests often are best served by avoiding litigation in the first place. Accordingly, our lawyers provide sophisticated counseling on a wide range of issues to help them meet that objective, including:
- Advising on compliance with the ever-expanding body of laws applicable to employers, including laws concerning discrimination and harassment, employee disabilities and leaves, proper overtime under overtime legal provisions, background checks and privacy issues;
- Advising on reductions in force and other employee separations and discipline, including “adverse impact” reviews;
- Drafting and negotiation of employment-related agreements and plans, including executive employment contracts, retention agreements, noncompetition and other restrictive covenants, separation agreements, and bonus and severance plans;
- Preparation of employment policies, such as employee handbooks, codes of conduct and electronic communications policies;
- Counseling on all aspects of labor-management relations, ranging from negotiation of labor agreements to advising on representation elections to handling of strikes and other disputes;
- Advising on the effective use of and representation of clients in, arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution
- Advising on restructuring and organizational change, including the planning and implementation of redundancy programs, boardroom restructuring and changing terms and conditions
- Advising on transactional work, which has seen us advise on the employment aspects of national and global corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and initial public offerings