Flichy Grangé Avocats

Flichy Grangé Avocats is a prominent French law firm specializing in employment and labour law. Its team includes 28 partners, 10 counsels, 2 consultants, and 50 associates, all exclusively focused on labour and employment law. Collaborating closely with HR departments and senior management, the firm provides strategic legal counsel, helping businesses anticipate and manage change effectively.

Serving a diverse client base, including major French and international corporations, employers' associations, and small to medium-sized enterprises, Flichy Grangé Avocats delivers tailored legal solutions.

To better support international clients, the firm co-founded L&E Global, a premier employment and labour law alliance that brings together over 30 top-tier law firms and a network of more than 1,750 attorneys worldwide.

Recognized by both French and international legal directories, Flichy Grangé Avocats is consistently ranked among the leading experts in employment and labour law.

Main Areas of Practice:

1. Labor Aspects of M&A - Reorganizations and Social Plans
2. Compensation - Employee Savings Plan - Employee Share Ownership
3. Occupational Health and Safety
4. Collective Bargaining and Labor Management Relations - Wage and Hour
5. Employment taxes - State audits (URSSAF)
6. High-Risk Litigation - Criminal labor litigation
7. International Mobility and Expatriation
8. Digital, GDPR and AI
9. Compliance - Diversity - CSR
10. Pensions - Benefit Plans
11. Civil Service - State-Owned Companies
12. Professional training
13. New forms of work
14. Executives and Material Risk Takers’ Status and Compensation

With the ever emerging legal environements, Flichy Grangé Avocats offers an adjusted legal advice and analysis structured by highly qualified legal experts. The firm has a bilingual team, led by Joël Grangé, Olivier Kress, Stéphanie Dumas, Caroline Scherrmann, Florence Bacquet and Natacha Lesellier whose expertise in dealing with transnational matters is widely recognised. They successfully provide legal advice to foreign companies seeking to develop their business in France, as well as to French companies planning to set up a business in other countries. Their expertise also spans all aspects related to employee mobility and business transfers i.e. transnational hiring of executives and employees, relocation and expatriation.

Labor Aspects of M&A - Reorganizations and Social Plans:

Assessment of the employment and labour law consequences of company sales, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions and the risks they involve, in particular by carrying out extensive employment and labour due diligence reviews or comprehensive studies of the impact on collective status. The firm also has recognised expertise in workforce reduction plans or site closure plans, in the form of either job preservation schemes or voluntary departure schemes and bearing in mind the recent major legal changes.

Compensation - Employee Savings Plan - Employee Share Ownership:

Advice and assistance in setting up an employee savings scheme. This can take the form either of optional or mandatory profit sharing or of a company savings plan. The firm can also assist you in setting up a workforce shareholding scheme [stock options, allocation of free shares, share capital increase restricted to the company savings plan"s participants]. lt can also advise you should dispute arise with the URSSAF, the workforce, staff representatives or with the trades unions. The firm's team can also audit your current remuneration schemes and in that light, suggest the most suitable profit-sharing arrangements.

Collective Bargaining and Labor Management Relations - Wage and Hour:

Assistance to French and foreign companies on collective agreements, collective bargaining, and working time regulations, including negotiations, working time systems, and compliance with labor laws. Expertise in trade union representativeness, staff representatives, and the Employment Preservation Act.

Occupational Health and Safety:

Responsible for monitoring risks, in order to be in a position to give the firm’s clients the best possible advice on the preventive actions to be taken, in connection with the CHSCT (the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee).

Employment taxes - State audits (URSSAF):

Managingall kind of social security issues taking into account not only French law but also EU reglementations. In addition, the firm's team is able to assist you with issues arising in relation to the unemployment insurance scheme, complementary pension schemes and special schemes applicable to specific cases. The team can also help with any procedures required, particularly during an audit by the Urssaf (the French authority responsible for collecting social security contributions).

Pensions - Benefit Plans:

Assistance with setting up complementary health and contingency schemes, as well as supplementary schemes, to benefit the workforce and upper-echelon executives. It can also advise in the event of transfer operations, by assessing the impact of a change in employer on workforce entitlements, or in the event of an URSSAF audit pertaining to exemption requirements. Specific benefits can be set up for pensioners or certain staff categories.

Executives and Material Risk Takers’ Status and Compensation:

Advice on all issues related to corporate governance, corporate officers’ compensation, executives' employment contracts, and the combination of corporate officer positions and employment contracts, particularly within listed companies and international groups.

High-Risk Litigation - Criminal labor litigation:

Offering tailored experience in different risky litigation cases and an effective approach to deal with individual litigation, and where applicable, 'mass' litigation cases throughout the entire French territory.

International Mobility and Expatriation:

Advice and representation to the top management and employees through a specific developped know-how on all the questions related to corporate governance and international mobility from compensation of corporate officers to employment contracts for managers of listed and non listed companies and international groups.

Digital, GDPR and AI:

As HR management undergoes digital transformation, integrating technologies like AI amid evolving regulations, companies must implement compliance programs that protect employee rights and secure operations against confidentiality breaches and cyber threats, often spanning international infrastructures. Our multidisciplinary ‘Digital, GDPR and AI’ department, leveraging expertise from L&E Global and ITech Law, delivers tailored, market-aligned solutions across 30+ countries, assisting with priority assessments, risk mapping, AI-related impact analyses, audits, and drafting essential internal and external policies. In M&A, we conduct IT, cyber, and data due diligence, and also support businesses in managing employee rights requests, interactions with regulatory bodies, pre-litigation, litigation, and crisis management.

Compliance - Diversity - CSR:

Advising clients in identifying their priorities through anti-corruption (Sapin II), human rights (Vigilance) and data privacy (GDPR) due diligence and assessments, drafting internal policies (Code of Ethics, anti-corruption Code of Conduct, Human Rights policy, anti-discrimination/sexual and psychological harassment policies, IT charters, social media policies, conflict of interests/gift and entertainment registers, supplier codes of conduct).

Civil Service - State-Owned Companies:

The state-owned companies practice has been set up to deal with all issues, arising with public sector organisation, which often involve a mix of administrative and civil law.

Professional training:

Advising employers on how best to work out training policies, on setting up annual reviews and on negotiating the attendant collective agreements specifically on the employer’s contribution to the statutory scheme known as the CPF (personal training account). It also assists training agencies with changes to their legal status or structure.

New forms of work:

Advising companies, groups, temporary work agencies, professional employment organizations, interim management firms, independent worker platforms, employment bodies, and professional unions.

International Footprint:

Co-founder of L&E Global, a current member of international networks: IBA, ABA, EELA, IEL.

Types of clients:

The firm advises clients across a wide range of industries, with a strong focus on the industrial, financial services, information technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. Its client base includes major French and international corporations, employers' associations, and small to medium-sized enterprises, offering them expert guidance and practical solutions for day-to-day employment matters. Additionally, the firm extends its services to public sector companies, providing tailored legal support to meet their specific needs.

To meet the evolving needs of international clients, Flichy Grangé Avocats has co-created L&E Global, an integrated cross-border labour and employment law alliance featuring 33 top law firms specializing in international and local labour policy with over 1,750 attorneys worldwide. The L&E Global team includes versatile and knowledgeable professionals with expertise in international legal matters and multi-jurisdictional labor issues, as well as innovative approaches and seamless billing procedures. Members possess a recognized regional footprint and are able to present clients with a truly international outlook while offering a pragmatic, quick and loyal service.