Labor & Employment

Law office protects companies and employees covered by the Serbian Labor Law. Our legal team provides day-to-day counseling to local and foreign companies on procedures for establishing offices and hiring new people.
See more at: Company registration

Law office protects companies and employees covered by the Serbian Labor Law.

Our legal team provides day-to-day counseling to local and foreign companies on procedures for establishing offices and hiring new people.
See more at: Special company offer

Law firm support and assists in the following areas:

• Legal protection of the Employer in view of legal obligations of employees:
• Representation starting from initial negotiations with future employees regarding employment conditions.
• negotiations on working conditions, rules, benefits, etc.:
  • Employment contracts and employee relations
  • Preparation of labor agreements
  • Types and forms of agreements with employees, etc.
    • Hiring of workers through fixed-term or long term contracts
    • Working hours
    • Overtime, weekly holiday and night work
    • Collective bargaining
    • Layoffs
    • Probationary periods
    • Paid annual leave
    • Sick leave
    • Maternity leave
    • Wages
    • What is the legal basis for minimum wage?
    • How many weekly rest days are required by law?
    • How many hours are there in a standard workday?
    • Is it legal for an employer to terminate the contract of an employee on the basis of redundancy only?
  • Conclusion of the employment agreement

Compulsory Employer's provisions for all employees: management & workers:

• Non-competition and non-disclosure issues,
• Protection of the trade & business secrets: Non-competition & Confidentiality clause
• Security rules and monitoring of director’s activities
• Authorizations and limitations of the management
• Limits of directors, deputies, procurators and managers.
• Contracts with managers, general managers, directors, etc.

We also assist with all statutory acts and agreements regarding employment and labor relations:

• Preparing company statute and employee relations code.
• Compulsory acts needed pursuant to the Serbian Law:
  General Act on Health and Safety at Work, Fire Protection Law, Job Positions Systematization, Code of Conduct, National Handbooks, etc.
• Application of other measures: decision on technological surplus, removal of employees from work; financial penalties; annexes to the employment agreement, etc.

Employment cancelation procedure, representing both companies and /or employee:

• Contract interpretation, including labor rights, breach of contract and enforcement procedure for cancellation of managers(directors) contracts
• Length of notice period
• Representation in all possible labor inspection proceedings: Legal representation of Employer after complaints submitted by employees and visit of the labor inspection to the company

Representation of our clients in the Litigation Court & litigation proceedings:

• Labor disputes before the court concerning Employer's decisions.
  See more at: Court litigation

Special services and consultancy for regulating legal status of foreigners in the territory of the Republic of Serbia:

• Including entry visas procedure:
  A confirmed invitation letter is the basis for a client to apply for a short term visit visa to Serbia. We will inform you about the necessary documents and information what we need for applying to confirm the invitation letter, and what you need in order to apply for a visa.
• Requesting the temporary or long-term business residential visas (Immigration police) and working permits for foreign applicants(National Un-employment state Agency).
• Complete legal representation – of both foreign companies and natural persons – through a special power of attorney.
• After the finalization of the registration procedure we can provide you with a draft Contract for our legal services on a monthly retainer basis.
  See more at: Permanent representation