Firm Profile
Human Resources and Pensions
Deacons’ Human Resources and Pensions practice group has a dedicated team of specialists advising clients on a wide range of human resources and pensions law including the Employment Ordinance, employees’ compensation, employment visas, labour disputes, and retirement schemes and provident funds.
Why choose Deacons for human resources and pensions advice?
Deacons’ Human Resources and Pensions practice is designed to meet client needs at every stage of an employment relationship. We are used to working across all human resources and pensions issues advising both employers and employees of enterprises both large and small. The practice group has language skills in English, Cantonese and Putonghua (Mandarin).
Our Human Resources and Pensions practice is regularly cited and recommended in guides to Asian commercial law firms. Cynthia Chung, the head of the group, is acknowledged as a Leading Individual in the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers Asia, listed in the Guide to the World’s Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers and has been acknowledged five times as a Recommended Lawyer in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits by PLC Which Lawyer? In the same publication, Deacons has been acknowledged four times as a recommended law firm in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits. A recent edition of Asia Pacific Legal 500 described the practice as providing “quality advice in a timely manner”.
International advice
Working with employment law specialists in our regional offices in the People’s Republic of China in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai we provide our clients with comprehensive one-stop legal advice on highly complex regional cross-border employment issues.
As the Hong Kong member firm of the Employment Law Alliance (ELA) legal network we also have access, when needed, to employment law specialists in over 135 countries. Information about ELA is at http://www.employmentlawalliance.com
Services offered include:
Human Resources related issues
- Our human resources practice group covers all aspects of employment law. Our comprehensive services offered include:
- Drafting, negotiating and advising on employment agreements and executive benefit packages
- Advising on all aspects of employment law including employee protection, benefits, maternity leave and sickness allowance requirements, severance and long service payments and termination requirements
- Advising on employment matters upon mergers and acquisitions of companies, transfers of business undertakings and restructuring of corporate entities
- Advising on the various discrimination ordinances (Sex Discrimination Ordinance, Disability Discrimination Ordinance and the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance) and on claims at the Equal Opportunities Commission
- Advising on employment disputes, including preparation of documents relating to Labour Tribunal actions and employee compensation claims
- Obtaining employment visas
- Advising clients in relation to industrial disputes
- Advising on rights and obligations under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, and access to employee data
- Advising and drafting documentation for employees stock option plans
Pensions related issues
Deacons’ pensions practice group is particularly well known for its advice on the Mandatory Provident Fund and ORSO schemes, where clients include trustees, service providers, managers and employers. We assist clients in advising and developing retirement schemes and provident funds, including mandatory provident funds, and all aspects of advice in relation thereto.
Newsworthy
Deacons is the Hong Kong member firm of Employment Law Alliance (ELA), a legal network of more than 160 leading independent law firms with over 3,000 lawyers providing employment and labour expertise in more than 100 countries and all 50 U.S. states.
Deacons has been acknowledged as a recommended law firm for the past seven years in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits by PLC Which Lawyer? (2005-2011 editions).
In the same publication, Cynthia Chung (partner) has been acknowledged four times as a recommended lawyer in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits (2006-2009 editions), and has been endorsed (2010-2011 editons).
Deacons has been ranked as a leading law firm in the area of Employment in Hong Kong by Chambers Asia (2008-2012 editions).
In the same publication, Cynthia Chung has been acknowledged as a leading lawyer in the area of Employment (2008-2012 editions).
Cynthia Chung (partner) was listed in the Guide to the World’s Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers (an Euromoney publication) in 2005.
Keith Cole (partner) has been acknowledged as one of Asia’s Leading Lawyers in the area of Labour & Employment in the AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey (2002).
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