{"id":209,"date":"2014-01-27T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaxopouloslaw.e-milionis.gr\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:36:09","slug":"labour-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.metaxopouloslaw.gr\/en\/areas-of-practice\/labour-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"209\" class=\"elementor elementor-209 elementor-207 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3db1a126 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3db1a126\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38047ea6\" data-id=\"38047ea6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fc1d33b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4fc1d33b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Labour Law<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7ab703a5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7ab703a5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-609dd2a0\" data-id=\"609dd2a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2df13312 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2df13312\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The firm provides regular advice on Greek labor law issues and labor relations in general, and represents an increasing number of legal entities and individuals before the Greek courts on labor law issues. The firm also provides advice to major multinational groups, particularly on matters of re-structuring and reorganizing their workforce and to individuals (primarily company executives) about labor disputes.<\/p><p><strong>Members:<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Kriton Metaxopoulos<\/strong>, Managing Partner<\/p><p><strong>Representative Cases:<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>EMPLOYEMENT AGREEMENTS \u2013 TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT \u2013 DATA PROTECTION \u2013 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE \u2013 LABOR LAW DISPUTES<\/strong><\/p><p>\u2022 Monitoring and handling of all labor issues on behalf of multinational and domestic companies. Illustrative examples are a foreign dairy product multinational, the second largest car hire multinational, the largest multinational laptop retailer in terms of volume and one of the leading multinational airlines.<\/p><p>\u2022 We regularly provide advice on drafting employment and independent contractor agreements but also more complex ones, such as drafting consent forms to make sure the transfer of the employees\u2019 personal data outside EU is lawful.<\/p><p>\u2022 We have experience concerning the legislation on changes in employer (in other words information and advice in the event of any transfer or continuation of a business under a new employer), acquisitions, mergers and other forms of business re-engineering.<\/p><p>\u2022 Our firm supported a multinational client on the application of the general principles of corporate governance and trading ethics to companies and in general in relation to codes of conducts towards employees.<\/p><p>\u2022 Out-of-court settlement of a labour dispute between a large food industry and a senior executive, who was represented by the firm with the payment of considerable compensation for terminating the labour relationship with our client (which according to many was the one of the highest compensation ever paid in Greece).<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-17a7bd\" data-id=\"17a7bd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-335c5d3a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"335c5d3a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-49569626 c-bracket\" data-id=\"49569626\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c05eb02 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5c05eb02\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c9908bd\" data-id=\"5c9908bd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d311774 c-widget-title-light elementor-widget elementor-widget-global elementor-global-3122 elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d311774\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"\/en\/areas-of-practice\/\">AREAS OF PRACTICE<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74c5ac6 c-links-container elementor-widget elementor-widget-global elementor-global-3120 elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"74c5ac6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metaxopouloslaw.gr\/en\/areas-of-practice\/intellectual-industrial-property-mass-media-and-entertainment-law-2\/\">Intellectual &amp; 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