Sophie-Laurence Vidal


Consultant

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1986, Sophie has worked in various firms specialized in employment law. She joined ASCOTT ASSOCIES in 2016.

Achievements :

  • Certificates of specialization in labour law, in law of social security and in social protection law
  • Company ombudsman certificate
  • Certificate training collaborative law

Practice Areas :

  • Labour law: consulting and litigation
  • Electoral disputes
  • Law of social security

Notable Work :

  • In consulting : At the individual level: drafting of employment contracts, hiring formalities, management and drafting of disciplinary sanctions, establishment of procedures for individual and/or economic redundancies, mutual termination, employee transfers, secondment and expatriation of employees, retirement, negotiations following transactional settlement;
  • At the collective level: establishment and operation of the staff representative institutions, relations with the Labour Inspectorate, negotiation, drafting and revision of company agreements, consulting regarding the bargaining process and information/consultation of staff representatives, economic redundancies.
  • In litigation: Preparation of submissions; files of pleadings, pleadings before the Labour Tribunal and the Labour Chambers of the COURTS OF appeal, as councel for Companies or Exectuive: individual or collective dismissals and redundancies, mutual terminations, disputes regarding protected employees, changes to employment contracts, psycho- social risks, legal or sector agreement company transfers, staff representatives, The Economic Unit and Social (UES), trade unions, gross negligence with regard to social security
  • In alternative methods of dispute resolution: Mediation, for which I have become a Mediator; In collaborative law

Languages :

  • French
  • English
  • Spanish