Polsinelli offers labor and employment mastery across the globe through a well-developed network. The need to successfully manage overseas staff becomes increasingly important as companies expand from U.S.-based entities to global corporations. We advise employers and conduct investigations inside and outside the United States on human resource and compliance issues.

We advise multinational businesses on various employment-related challenges at the international, regional, and local levels. These issues vary from routine international matters involving a single country to significant and intricate multijurisdictional employment law initiatives and transactions. Our labor and employment attorneys work with employers to mitigate global workplace risk and coordinate the defense of disputes abroad. We lead cross-border investigations into workplace issues by building global standards. Our attorneys provide clients with multinational workforce due diligence for mergers and acquisitions worldwide.

Our attorneys counsel foreign entities operating inside the United States and U.S. entities engaging in global labor and training for anti-corruption.

To solve our clients’ most complex cross-border problems, we bring multiple disciplines together from across the firm with experience in international tax, tax, benefits, immigration and corporate law.

Examples of what our labor and employment attorneys offer:

• Cross-border investigations
• Mitigating risk and compliance
• Managing mobile employees
• Employment agreements abroad
• Payroll and employment taxes
• Wage and hour
• Immigration, visas, and work permits
• Alternative labor sources
• Global employee benefits
• International union relations
• Country-by-country policies
• Employment changes and terminations abroad
• Reductions in force/downsizing
• Employment litigation
• Global compliance
• International labor agreements