Employment

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KLME's Employment practice offers clients the full range of employment legal services across the Middle East. Our dedicated team of specialists are well known for keeping up to speed with the latest legal developments and have an excellent grasp of Middle Eastern cultures. Our experts have significant experience advising local, regional and international clients in the financial services, energy, healthcare, hospitality and tourism, retail and consumer products, and education sectors.

KLME's Employment practice understands the complexities in the region and supports clients in navigating the laws and processes by providing pragmatic commercial advice.

 Areas of expertise include:

• Recruitment and onboarding
• Drafting and implementing employment contracts, service agreements and HR policies
• Compliance with local labour laws
• Day-to-day HR issues
• Drafting and implementing employee handbooks, policies and procedures
• Executive severance and settlement agreement
• Disciplinary & grievance procedures
• Discrimination
• Regulatory matters
• Terminations and dismissals
• Employee investigations
• Employment disputes
• Employment litigation
• Data protection compliance
• Employment matters relating to M&As and restructurings