Our employment law practice assists businesses in managing workplace matters with clarity, compliance, and commercial acumen. We advise on the full range of employment issues in Singapore, from recruitment and engagement to termination and restructuring, and represent clients in both advisory and contentious contexts.
We are regularly engaged by employers across sectors such as technology, financial services, healthcare, aviation, and manufacturing. Our experience spans engagements involving senior management and key executives, unionised workforce concerns, internal investigations, and cross-border employment matters.
Our Employment Law Expertise
- Recruitment and Onboarding: Drafting of employment contracts, negotiation of terms of engagement, probation clauses, remote and flexible work arrangements
- Executive Remuneration and Incentives: Structuring of employee share option plans and performance-based award schemes
- Disciplinary Procedures and Performance Management: Designing and implementing internal processes in line with Ministry of Manpower guidelines
- Workplace Investigations and Employee Misconduct: Conducting and advising on investigations involving harassment, discrimination, psychosocial risks, bribery and corruption, and other forms of employee misconduct
- Union Matters and Industrial Relations: Advice employers with unionised employees on the interpretation of collective agreements, handling union-related grievances
- Post-Employment Obligations: Enforcing non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality undertakings
- Termination and Separation: Managing dismissals, performance-related exits, mutual separation agreements, and severance negotiations
- Business Restructuring and Retrenchment Exercises: Advising on redundancy, cost rationalisation, and compliance with the Tripartite Advisory on Managing Excess Manpower
- Workplace Policies: Drafting and reviewing employee handbooks, workplace fairness policies, grievance frameworks, and codes of conduct
- Fair Employment and Dispute Resolution: Advising on wrongful dismissal, discrimination, harassment, and representation at the Employments Claim Tribunal or Ministry of Manpower
- Engagement of Contract and Gig Workers: Structuring of contract for service arrangements and advisory on platform-based workforce models
- Global Mobility and Regional Workforce Management: Advising on secondment arrangements, expatriate employment terms, and cross-border employment structuring
- Immigration and Work Passes: Applications for Employment Passes, EntrePass, Technology.Pass, and Overseas Networks and Expertise Pass (ONE Pass)
Trusted Advisors in Employment Law
We assist employers at every stage of the employment relationship, whether proactively structuring workforce arrangements or responding to employment disputes. Clients appreciate our ability to provide legally sound, pragmatic advice that is attuned to business realities.
Whether you are reviewing your employment documentation, handling a workplace investigation, or managing the departure of a senior executive, we are here to help you make informed, confident decisions.
Our Approach
Our approach is practical and solutions-oriented. We work closely with human resources professionals, legal counsel, and compliance officers to ensure that our advice is aligned with business goals, adheres to the evolving regulatory framework, and is sensitive to organisational culture and people concerns.
