Employment

We advise multinational companies on their Japanese employment issues, liaising with business owners, HR professionals, in-house counsel, and lawyers in international law firms. As employment issues are sometimes a mixture of legal and cultural issues, we balance client goals with the legal restrictions and cultural complexities of employee relations.

We regularly represent multinational clients in employment litigation and appear in local courts and labor tribunals.

Practice areas include:

Contracts: Offer letters, employment contracts, secondment agreements, severance agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
Policies: Work rules; code of conduct; overtime, harassment, and flex or discretionary work policies.
Consultation: Reduction in force, restructuring and redundancy in mergers and acquisitions, regulations on spin-off transactions, and day-to-day employment relations issues.
Management: Performance evaluation and improvement, severance discussion, discipline, and termination.
Investigation: Investigating allegations of misconduct, bullying or harassment, and preparing reports and recommendations.
Litigation: Wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, overtime, non-compete and trade secret.