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Upholding workplace equality: Fine Law's recent work on resolving a BPO industry discrimination case
- Thursday, 29 February 2024 / Recent Deals
Iulian Patrascanu undertook a discrimination complaint project for a client in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, where the person against whom the complaint was made is one of the top managers. Our comprehensive services included a multi-faceted approach to effectively address the issue.
Unveiling the Hidden Threat: Why Identifying Toxic Employees In Your Team is Crucial
- Wednesday, 28 February 2024 / Articles
Identifying toxic people within a team is crucial to ensuring a healthy and effective work environment. Toxicity can manifest itself in a variety of ways, such as bad attitudes, disruptive behaviour, ineffective communication, and a lack of accountability.
Wrongful dismissal of a CFO
- Thursday, 25 March 2021 / Recent Deals
Successfully representing a CFO of a company acting in financial services industry, who was dismissed on the grounds of professional inadequacy.
Winning the litigation by dismissing the claim formulated by an employee who sought damages of Euro 25,000
- Thursday, 25 March 2021 / Recent Deals
Winning a court case whereby an employee sought damages of EUR 25000 for the impossibility of promoting due to continuous harassment and discrimination activities promoted by the manager.
Cancellation of a sanction imposed by the NCDD
- Thursday, 25 March 2021 / Recent Deals
Successful representation of a client before the Courts, for the annulment of a sanction imposed by the National Council for Combating Discrimination.
Winning the litigation case by dismissing the claim of Euro 700,000
- Thursday, 25 March 2021 / Recent Deals
Successfully representing the client (a multinational company with over 800 employees) in dismissing the claim formulated by a former employee with regards to discrimination and harassment.
Teleworking vs work from home
- Friday, 07 June 2019 / Articles
Teleworking is an individual labour agreement providing that the employee performs the duties specific to his/her position, activity or job, in a place other than the workplace organized by the employer, at least one day per month, using information and communication technology, while work from home is an individual labour agreement for work from home explictly providing that the work duties are to be performed from the employee's domicile.
Intra-group merger
- Thursday, 14 February 2019 / Recent Deals
Assisting the Romanian subsidiary of an European leading manufacturer of insulators during the entire process of company integration into the mother company, including with respect to intra-group contracts aiming to cover the transactional chain and to shares transfer operations and further registration with the competent bodies.
Acquisition of hotel unit in Romania
- Thursday, 14 February 2019 / Recent Deals
Assisting an international hotel chain in acquisition of hotel units in Bucharest. Our services consisted in preparing the legal due diligence investigation on the target company, including a legal review of the ownership title, and other related property documents and assistance during the private bidding process.
GDPR implementation in banking and capital market areas
- Thursday, 14 February 2019 / Recent Deals
Legal assistance to a Romanian commercial bank, a stock exchange operator and its affiliates in implementing the GDPR requirements into their organizations. Our services included: overall review of the data processing; drafting working procedures, internal policies, employees’ consent on data processing; revision of contractual relationship with all business partners and services providers and drafting relevant data processing agreements; conducting data processing impact assessment.
