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Employment and labour law in Jordan

Employment and labour law, Jordan

Jordan's employment and labour law team works closely with you to understand your business and the commercial implications of strategic decisions.

Employees are an organisation’s most valuable asset. You need effective strategies for managing your people to ensure they work as effectively as possible.

In these globalised times, our employment lawyers can help you consider your employment and labour law rights on a local, pan-Middle Eastern and international scale.

Quality and experience in Employment and labour law

Our Amman based team have years of employment and labour law experience, advising on and working with the laws and regulations of Jordan, the Middle East and on a global basis. Many of our employment lawyers have worked in-house and handled the issues you face from your perspective.

Experts in dealing with sensitive situations, our employment and labour law team have excellent contacts with the relevant authorities, ensuring our advice is always in line with current custom. We forge long standing relationships with our experience of;

  • advising on the implications of amending policies and contracts of employment/benefits/bonus payments
  • advising on strategic immigration formalities
  • advising on high profile departures of key executives including drafting/negotiating settlement agreements
  • drafting and/or reviewing employment contracts, handbooks and policy documentation
  • ensuring compliance with local labour law requirements
  • guiding companies through sensitive restructuring and redundancy arrangements

  • reducing risks of complaints at the applicable Ministry of Labour

Areas of experience- Employment and law

Our labour law team will help you to navigate the legal complexities of employment law to ensure that the policies and procedures you develop and implement are well-informed, pragmatic and suitable for your legal environment.

Our employment and labour lawyers are able to work on different levels and bring different policies together into one manageable whole. Above all, we can offer employment advice that delivers practical solutions and real results for;

  • business expansion
  • crisis management
  • culture change
  • dispute resolution
  • redundancy
  • review of employment arrangements

  • reward strategies

Testimonials - Employment and labour law

Eversheds global employment and labour law team is recognised by Chambers

for its high visibility and for delivering a consistent level of service across its network".

Chambers gives ‘leading individuals’ ranking to 23 Eversheds employment lawyers; no other law firm has more lawyers ranked in this way.

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