Employment
Employment
An outstanding track record in handling employment issues
Through this ever-changing employment law landscape, employees are no doubt a company’s greatest asset, which makes it vitally fundamental to have the right guidance on the latest law and how it impacts your business.
BLC Robert & Associates has been cited as a leading employment law firm in Africa for finding best-of-breed solutions to employment and compensation issues for a wide range of clients, from international corporations to senior executives. As a full-fledged business law firm, we have a proven track record of successfully managing employment disputes, assisting clients’ diverse needs and backgrounds domestically and regionally.
As specialists in our field, our lawyers handle the whole range of employment disputes in courts and arbitration settings.
Our Expertise
- Employment laws, policies and pension schemes in Mauritius
- Employment appointment and termination
- Expert advice to boards and senior management of listed and privately-held companies on sensitive employment issues, as well as the latest corporate governance and executive remuneration requirements.
- Employee compensation
- Restructuring, reorganisation and retrenchments, including complex sensitive trade union relations and industrial action
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Advice on complex and sensitive issues involving accelerated terminations, discrimination, whistle-blowing, and restrictive covenants.
- Assistance in disciplinary proceedings and acting as counsel in court cases
Key Contacts
Recent Works
- Advising RIU Hotel and Resort Group, one of the renowned names in the hotel industry, since implementation in Mauritius in 2014 on employment law matters.
- Advising Outrigger Mauritius Beach Resort on all employment and industrial relations matter.
- Advising Oracle, an American Multinational computer technology corporation, in respect of its operations in Mauritius.
- Advisors to Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, in respect of employment law matters.
- Advisors to Domitys Domaine De Grand Baie in respect of all their employment matters relating to a senior service residence in Mauritius.
- Contribution to Chambers Global in respect of Mauritian employment law (Article entitled ‘Chambers Global Practice Guide: Employment – Definitive global law guides offering comparative analysis from top-ranked lawyers’).
- Advisors to Metro CAF who has been awarded the contract for the construction and maintenance of the Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) in respect of the project in Mauritius on employment law matters.
- Advisors to Deutsche Bank (Mauritius) Limited in respect of its exit in Mauritius on all employment law matters
- Advising the Pennsylvania State University on employment matters.
- Advising several offshore companies on all aspects of employment laws in relation to their activities in Mauritius and assist non-citizens in respect of all their formalities to obtain their work permits.
- Regularly advises banks and corporates on day-to-day employment law matters.