Cindy Diaz
Associate
Cindy Diaz
Social law — employment and social security law.
Maître Cindy Diaz practises her profession with passion and rigour, guided at every stage by the core principles of the legal profession: dignity, conscience, independence, integrity and humanity.
During her university studies, Maître Cindy Diaz quickly turned to social law and its many facets. Determined to become a seasoned specialist in this field, she chose to complement her academic knowledge with varied professional experience at specialist law firms, employment courts (Conseil de Prud’hommes and Court of Appeal) and within companies (HR departments, accounting firms).
Drawing on this wide-ranging experience, Maître Cindy Diaz is well equipped to support, advise and defend you, whether you are an employer or an employee.
Languages: French and Spanish
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Maître Diaz’s career
Practice Areas
Support on both sides of the employment relationship
Employer side
- Preparing to recruit an employee: handling procedures to obtain work permits for foreign employees, choosing the type of contract best suited to the situation, organising and monitoring the probationary period (duration, renewal, termination)
- Drafting and amending employment contracts and their « sensitive » clauses: remuneration, working time (fixed-day/fixed-hour arrangements, multi-weekly, annual or multi-annual working time arrangements), mobility, exclusivity, non-competition, intellectual property
- Drafting and monitoring part-time employment contracts and other « atypical » contracts (temporary work, fixed-term assignments, project-based work, subcontracting)
- Organising employee representative elections (setting up/renewing the CSE works council) and managing collective disputes
- Collective bargaining, with or without a union representative
- Day-to-day support in applying and implementing employment regulations: internal rules, taking of paid leave, handling absences and sick leave, on-call duty, night work
- Legal monitoring
- Managing litigation risk
- Support in conducting internal investigations
- Advice, organisation and support in disciplinary procedures and employment contract termination procedures (resignation, mutually agreed termination, individual and collective dismissal, retirement, etc.)
- Support in settlements with employees
- Optimising the social security and tax treatment of termination payments and settlement payments
- Managing employment law litigation before all courts, for all individual and collective disputes initiated by or against the employer
Employee side
- Advice and support in negotiating and signing the employment contract
- Support and advice to employees facing professional changes: promotion to managerial status, changes to their employment contract (remuneration, working time, place of work)
- Strategic support for employees leaving their employment contract: choosing the type of termination (mutually agreed termination, constructive dismissal, etc.) and timing, negotiating departure terms and severance payments
- Optimising the social security and tax treatment of termination payments and settlement payments
- Helping to establish specific and particularly difficult professional situations for the employee: harassment (psychological and sexual), workplace accidents and occupational illness, disability
- Representation before all courts (Labour Court, Social Security Tribunal) and social security bodies (CPAM health insurance fund, CRA), for all disputes brought in the employee’s interest and to protect their rights