Employment Law

Employment Law

We provide expert legal services in Employment Law, offering comprehensive advice and representation on matters including employment contracts, workplace disputes, termination of employment, and employee rights. We assist both employers and employees, ensuring compliance with Cyprus labor regulations and resolving conflicts efficiently through negotiation, mediation, or litigation. Our goal is to safeguard the interests of our clients while fostering fair and lawful employment practices.

Employment relationships are governed by law from the moment the job offer is made until long after the employee has left. The legal framework includes the Contracts of Employment Law, the Termination of Employment Law, the Equal Treatment Law, and numerous regulations on working time, health and safety, and social insurance.

For employers, the firm advises on all aspects of the employment relationship. Drafting contracts of employment that comply with statutory requirements and reflect the reality of the role. Preparing staff handbooks that set out policies on discipline, grievance, and expected conduct. Advising on restructuring and redundancy exercises, ensuring that selection criteria are fair and that consultation obligations are met.

Disciplinary and grievance procedures require careful handling. A dismissal that is procedurally unfair may be found substantively unfair even if there were good grounds for it. The firm advises on investigations, disciplinary hearings, and appeals, ensuring that employers follow a process that will withstand scrutiny before the Industrial Disputes Court.

For employees, the firm acts in claims for unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, discrimination, and breach of contract. Unfair dismissal claims arise where the employer lacked a fair reason for dismissal or acted unreasonably in treating that reason as sufficient. Wrongful dismissal claims arise where the employer breached the contract by failing to give proper notice or by dismissing in breach of contractual procedures.

Discrimination claims are governed by the Equal Treatment Laws, which prohibit discrimination on grounds of race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, and gender. The firm advises on the merits of such claims and represents employees in proceedings before the Industrial Disputes Court.

Settlement agreements provide a mechanism for ending employment relationships on agreed terms, with the employee waiving claims in return for compensation. The firm advises on the drafting and negotiation of these agreements, ensuring that they are binding and that employees receive independent legal advice as required.