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In this episode we share the latest practices with you, offer an insider’s perspective and provide

practical solutions for business in matters concerning labour law requirements during corporate

restructurings and M&A

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Olga Pimanova, Of

Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice, and Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour

and Employment Practice, PhD in Law.

Episode details:

01:26 – Employment-related aspects of corporate deals

05:24 – Consulting obligations (liaising with a trade union)

06:35 – Transferring local business to Russian management due to the current circumstances

10:30 – Russian management liability for global business decisions

12:10 – Workforce restructuring

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us via [email protected].

The Russian law provides for additional support to so-called “protected categories” of employees.

The ALRUD team has strong experience on resolving issues with the protected employees, and today

we will try to shed more light on this.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Margarita

Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice, PhD in Law, and Maria Nevezhina,

Senior Attorney of Labour and Employment Practice, PhD in Law.

Episode details:

02:02 – Protected categories of employees: who are they?

06:20 – Dismissal of employees with family responsibilities

10:02 – Dishonesty and abuse of rights

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us via [email protected].

Migration legislation in Russia is quite complex for our foreign colleagues due to a wide range of laws and procedures. In new episode we will discuss key migration issues.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Anastasia Petrova, Of Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice, and Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice, PhD in Law.

Episode details:

02:08 – Migration issues: general overview

07:25 – Migration during COVID-19

09:07 – New and upcoming regulations

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us via [email protected].

We will try our best to comprehensively shed light on the legal issues to be considered when implementing pre-termination restrictions and how these mechanisms are figured in the Russian law.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice, PhD in Law, and Elena Chershintseva, Associate of Labour and Employment Practice.

Episode details:

01:45 – Mechanisms of pre-termination restrictions, which are available in Russia

04:04 – Safe and effective options to negotiate the employee’s absence at the workplace and limit his access to the company’s IT sources

06:00 – Proper formalization is essential

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us via [email protected].

Digitalization of HR-related processes and activities is increasing rapidly and allows active use of such information as Big Data. Big Data includes enormous amounts of information, that can assist employers to recruit, promote, motivate, reward employees and identify low performers among them. As a result, Big Data of employees, candidates and former employees has become a significant value for employers. Despite these benefits, use of Big Data undoubtedly presents certain issues which the employer should consider. Everybody has heard the recent high-profile case of the dismissal of a large number of employees, based on the Big Data analysis of their activities. That’s why we can`t ignore discussion of Big Data issues in employment context anymore.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Anastasia Petrova, Of Counsel, and Olga Pimanova, Of Counsel.

 

Incentivizing of employees exerts a strong influence in terms of their strategic impact and can be an effective tool for employers, particularly during times of economic uncertainty. Incentivizing enables employers to retain key talents, implement new skills and behaviors, and drive organizational transformation. The fast-changing employment environment, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, can also inspire the need for changes to the employees’ incentivizing. Now, as organizations have adjusted to a new reality, they have an opportunity to reevaluate their pay plans and introduce some program changes that could help them thrive, within a rapidly changing economic reality. In this episode we will address these issues that are crucial to organizations and discuss the acceptable types of employee motivation and incentive in Russia.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD and Olga Pimanova, Of Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD.

In this episode, we will discuss labour dispute resolution in Russia. We will address process features and key trends in labour litigation. The peculiarity of labour disputes in Russia is that they rarely start with large financial claims of employees. They are more aimed at the company's brand, its reputation, and the like. However, practice shows that, due to the length and formality of the litigation, originally-insignificant financial demands can develop into rather large ones, over time. Another quite sensitive specific of Russian labour litigation is that one of the core demands in dismissal challenging cases is reinstatement at work. This also means compensation for the forced unemployment for the whole period of litigation, in case the court sustains the claim. As such, labour disputes should be treated with the highest degree of care.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD and Maria Nevezhina Senior Attorney of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD.

In this episode, we will talk about the most relevant issues and key practical aspects, related to the engagement of independent partners in Russia. Instead of establishing legal entities in Russia, many international companies prefer to engage Russia-based specialists as individual contractors. From the Russian law perspective, such arrangements strongly differ from employment relations and shall be regulated by civil law agreements. Hiring individuals located in Russia, by international companies, which do not have a corporate presence in Russia, may trigger permanent establishment risks, taxation issues, re-qualification of such arrangements into actual employment which, in its turn, may cause further labour law risks.

Such arrangements shall also comply with mandatory Russian law requirements to allow the enforceability of terms and conditions, ensure IP rights’ protection and transfers as well as validate personal data transfers and processing outside Russia.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Anastasia Petrova, Of Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD and Elena Chershintseva, Associate of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD.

In this episode, we discuss key implications of conducting internal investigations in Russia. Russian law does not specify the procedure of conducting internal investigations. In the meantime, based on the general constitutional provisions, labour and data protection laws, some compulsory formalities shall be accomplished by the initiator of the investigation. Besides, these legislation is very employee-protective and therefore creates a number of limitations for the employers’ conducting internal investigations.

Speakers: Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice and Anastasia Petrova, Of Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD.

In this episode, we will explain how Russian employers can protect their commercial secrets. This topic has become very important, since still many employees continue performing their job duties remotely, due to current pandemic. In such circumstances, the employers’ abilities to keep control over confidential information are limited. Thus, employers have to enhance the legal protection of confidential information.

 

Speakers:

 Irina Anyukhina, ALRUD Partner and Head of Labour and Employment Practice, Margarita Egiazarova, Senior Associate of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD, and Anastasia Petrova, Of Counsel of Labour and Employment Practice at ALRUD.