Full-Spectrum Employment Advice for Corporates
Backed by a full-service Corporate practice, our employment lawyers structure, manage and protect the employer-employee relationship for businesses across Singapore.
Led by Managing Director Samuel Yuen and Senior Director Kevin Chua, our employment lawyers work within Yuen Law’s Corporate practice giving clients direct access to the same team handling their commercial, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory matters. We are regularly engaged by employers across technology, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, including matters involving senior management, cross-border teams and unionised workforces.
Our practice covers the full employment lifecycle, drafting and structuring employment contracts and incentive schemes, managing workforce mobility and immigration, designing workplace policies and disciplinary frameworks, and advising on restructuring, retrenchment and separation.
For workplace investigations and contentious employment claims, our Dispute Resolution practice, led by Director Amos Cai and Denise Teo, works alongside the Corporate practice.
Recognition
Yuen Law is recognised by Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific and asialaw. Our Corporate practice holds recognition across mergers and acquisitions, startups and emerging companies and investment funds.
Our Employment Law Expertise
Recruitment and Onboarding
As employment contract lawyers, we draft employment contracts and negotiate terms of engagement, probation clauses, and remote and flexible work arrangements.
Executive Remuneration and Incentives
We structure employee share option plans, vesting agreements and performance-based award schemes for senior management and key executives.
Engagement of Contract and Gig Workers
We structure contract-for-service arrangements and advise on platform-based workforce models.
Global Mobility and Regional Workforce Management
We structure secondment arrangements, expatriate employment terms and cross-border employment for regionally deployed teams.
Founder Immigration Pathways and Work Passes
We handle Employment Pass, EntrePass, Tech.Pass and Overseas Networks and Expertise Pass (ONE Pass) applications.
Workplace Policies
We draft and review employee handbooks, workplace fairness policies, grievance frameworks and codes of conduct.
Union Matters and Industrial Relations
We advise employers with unionised workforces on the interpretation of collective agreements and the handling of union-related grievances.
Business Restructuring and Retrenchment Exercises
We advise on the legal requirements for retrenchment and reorganisation exercises, including retrenchment benefits, notification obligations and compliance with the Tripartite Advisory on Managing Excess Manpower.
Termination and Separation
We manage dismissals, performance-related exits, mutual separation agreements and severance negotiations. We draft and enforce non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality undertakings.
Workplace Investigations and Employee Misconduct
our Dispute Resolution team advises corporates on workplace investigations spanning harassment, discrimination, psychosocial risk, bribery and corruption, fraud and asset recovery, and other employee misconduct.
Representative Employment Matters
We advise on the full spectrum of employer risk, from contractual disputes to regulatory compliance. Corporates we have advised include:
Collective Agreement Negotiations with Trade Union for a Food & Beverage Manufacturer
Advised a Singapore-based manufacturer and exporter of edible oils and fats, a subsidiary of a company listed on Bursa Malaysia, on the negotiation and interpretation of amendments to its collective agreement proposed by the Food, Drinks and Allied Workers Union (FDAWU), an NTUC-affiliated trade union representing workers in Singapore’s food manufacturing, F&B and hospitality sectors. The mandate covered the union’s proposed amendments against the gazetted collective agreement, the client’s employment handbook, the Employment Act and applicable Tripartite Standards, as well as adopting further Tripartite Standards to strengthen the client’s employment practices and support its manpower attraction and retention objectives.
Defending an Asset Management Firm in a Wrongful Dissmissal Claim
Our Dispute Resolution practice defended an international asset management company in a dispute brought by a former employee over wrongful dismissal, substantially reducing the damages sought.
Read the case summary.
Trusted Advisors in Employment Law
As an employment law firm Singapore businesses turn to across sectors, we work with clients at every stage of the employment relationship, structuring workforce arrangements before they become problems and standing ready with dispute capability if they do. Whether you are reviewing your employment documentation, planning a restructuring exercise, or managing the departure of a senior executive, our team delivers commercially grounded advice built around your business.
