Human Resources and Pensions

Why choose Deacons for human resources and pensions advice?

International advice

Services offered include

Human Resources and Pensions

Deacons' Human Resources and Pensions team has a dedicated team of specialists advising clients on a wide range of human resources and pensions law including the Employment Ordinance, employees' compensation, workplace discrimination, employment visas, labour disputes, and retirement schemes and provident funds.

Why choose Deacons for human resources and pensions advice?

Deacons' Human Resources and Pensions team is designed to meet client needs at every stage of an employment relationship. We are used to working across all human resources and pensions issues advising both employers and employees of enterprises both large and small. The team has language skills in English, Cantonese and Putonghua (Mandarin).

Our Human Resources and Pensions team is regularly cited and recommended in guides to Asian commercial law firms. Cynthia Chung, is acknowledged as a Leading Individual in the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions of Chambers Asia, listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers and has been acknowledged as a Recommended Lawyer in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits by PLC Which Lawyer? since 2002. In the same publication, Deacons has been acknowledged as a recommended law firm in the area of Labour & Employee Benefits since 2002. A recent edition of Asia Pacific Legal 500 described the team as providing "quality advice in a timely manner".

International advice

Working with employment law specialists in our regional offices in the People's Republic of China in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai we provide our clients with comprehensive one-stop legal advice on highly complex regional cross-border employment issues.

As the Hong Kong member firm of the Employment Law Alliance (ELA) legal network we also have access, when needed, to employment law specialists in over 135 countries.

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Services offered include:

Human Resources related issues

Our Human Resources team covers all aspects of employment law. Our comprehensive services offered include:

• Drafting, negotiating and advising on employment agreements and executive benefit packages

• Advising on all aspects of employment law including employee protection, benefits, maternity leave and sickness allowance requirements, severance and long service payments and termination requirements

• Advising on employment matters upon mergers and acquisitions of companies, transfers of business undertakings and restructuring of corporate entities

• Advising on the various discrimination ordinances (Sex Discrimination Ordinance, Disability Discrimination Ordinance, the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance and the Race Discrimination Ordinance) and on claims at the Equal Opportunities Commission

• Advising on employment disputes, including preparation of documents relating to Labour Tribunal actions and employee compensation claims

• Obtaining employment visas

• Advising clients in relation to industrial disputes

• Advising on rights and obligations under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, and access to employee data

• Advising and drafting documentation for employees stock option plans

Pensions related issues

Deacons' Pensions team is particularly well known for its advice on the Mandatory Provident Fund and ORSO schemes, where clients include trustees, service providers, managers and employers. We assist clients in advising and developing retirement schemes and provident funds, including mandatory provident funds and ORSO schemes, and all aspects of advice in relation thereto.

Client Training

We provide, on request, training for employers on a variety of employment law topics and workplace discrimination/harassment. Please contact us for details and schedule of fees.