Kellerhals Carrard advises clients on various employment issues, such as gender discrimination, internal investigations, mass redundancies, drafting of internal regulations, and compensation claims. The team prides itself on its longstanding relationships with high-level clients, as well as its ability to continuously expand its clientele across various industries including consumer goods and retail, healthcare, life science, and pharma. Team co-head Christoph Zimmerli has extensive expertise in collective labour law, permit law, and occupational benefits. Urs Marti, who also co-heads the team, is a specialist in all issues of employment law from individual and collective employment law to public employment law. The team also benefits from the expertise of employment specialists Daniel Alder and Jonathan Bernasconi .
Testimonials
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‘Urs Marti and his team of associates are excellent. They are dedicated, engaged and understand our employer’s perspective. We are very pleased with Urs and his team.’
‘Urs Marti has a very deep knowledge and expertise in employment and social security matters. He is a very pragmatic lawyer, fast thinker, and his work is always of high value and quality.'
Key clients
- CSL Behring AG and CSL Behring Lengnau AG
- H&M Hennes & Mauritz AG
- L’Oréal Suisse SA (L’Oréal Group)
- Zegna Group (Consitex SA, Coti Service, Ermenegildo Zegna, Z Zegna, Agnona
- VF International Sagl (VANS, The North Face, Timberland, Dickies, Altra, Bulwark FR, Eagle Creek, Eastpak, Icebreaker, Jansport, Kipling and Napapijri)
- Swiss National Radio and Television Company
- Swisscom Directories AG
- Mayr-Melnhof Karton Aktiengesellschaft
- Staar Surgical Company
- Siegfried AG
- AMG Group
- International School of Berne AG
- Securitas AG
- Gebaeudeversicherung Bern (GVB)
Work highlights
- Advising CSL Behring AG and CSL Behring Lengnau AG Swiss subsidiaries on a transfer of business/outsourcing project, as well as the setting-up of a social security plan, a working time scheme regulation, various lawsuits and non-judicial disputes involving C-Level employees.
- Advising Swiss National Radio and Television Company in employment and labour law-related matters, including a dispute against a trade union regarding a parallel collective labour agreement.
- Acting as counsel to H&M regarding the implementation of a social plan in connection with the restructuring of its stores throughout Switzerland, the collaboration with the employee representative committee (ERC), drafting of internal regulation and various civil lawsuits (bonus disputes, alleged abusive dismissals).
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Christoph Zimmerli, Urs Marti