When, in difficult economic times like these, a U.S.-headquartered employer needs to cut back its human resources costs, the first strategy that comes to mind is a U.S.-style cut-back -- a restructuring, pay-cut, or reductions-in-force. The cut-back strategy comes first to mind to American management because the U.S. is virtually unique as an employment-at-will jurisdiction.  In the states, implementing a restructuring, pay-cut, or reduction-in-force, although inevitably tricky, tends to be less regulated, by international standards.

The other side of this coin is that, outside the U.S., so-called "indefinite employment law" or "security of tenure" systems impose concepts of "vested and acquired" rights.  Overseas, laws regulate workplace restructurings and pay-cuts more extensively than stateside, and they regulate reductions-in-force substantially more extensively.

This webinar will show an America-based multinational how to project-manage a cross-border human resources cut-back across its outside-U.S. operations with a focus on project-managing cross-border restructurings, pay-cuts, and reductions-in-force.

Join Donald C. Dowling, Jr., International Employment Counsel, White & Case for a discussion of:

•  Restructurings outside the U.S. in "vested/acquired" rights jurisdictions
•  The five principles limiting an employer's right to cut back terms/conditions of employment outside the U.S.
•  Restrictions specific to pay-cuts outside the U.S.
•  Alternate strategies beyond RIFs abroad
•  The six tiers of severance laws that regulate an outside-U.S. reduction-in-force

Donald C. Dowling, Jr., International Employment Counsel, White & Case

 
Donald C. Dowling, Jr., International Employment Counsel, White & Case, concentrates his practice on cross-border human resources law issues for multinational employers. Don is one of two lawyers in the US ranked in the top tier (“Leading”) in the only competitive ranking of international labor/employment lawyers, London-based PLC Which Lawyer?, and he is ranked by Chambers as one of the top 34 Labor & Employment lawyers in New York.