Loïc Héron
Loïc qualified as a member of the Paris Bar in 2000. Loïc specializes in employment and labour law, in an advisory or contentious role. Loïc is fluent in English and French. He graduated from the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, from King’s College London (Hons.) and from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris (Hons.). Loïc started as an associate with Baker & McKenzie and Denton Wilde Sapte and then worked for almost 7 years with the Paris Employment Pensions & Benefits team of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Loïc especially advises French and foreign companies, specifically in the transportation and logistics, retail and industrial manufacturing business sectors, both for day-to-day matters and for major projects (e.g., sales and acquisitions, moving of premises, collective redundancies, etc.). Loïc also advises individual corporate officers or executives.
Practice
Employment and social security litigation
- Individual litigation before the Labour courts (first instance industrial tribunals and courts of appeals)
- Collective litigation before the civil courts (e.g., works council litigation, electoral disputes)
- Administrative litigation (e.g., in relation to the termination of protected employees)
- Criminal litigation (e.g., employee representatives issues, health and safety issues)
- Social security litigation, from the non-contentious relationships with the Social security authorities to the litigation before the Social security courts)
Other Practitioners
Nicolas Léger
Individual employment and corporate officers status
- Negotiation and drafting of employment contracts and corporate mandates (e.g., employment and corporate procedures, packages, specific clauses)
- Disciplinary and other individual employment issues (e.g., variable pay, mobility, non compete, harassment, discrimination)
- Individual termination procedure (e.g., mutual termination agreement, resignation, dismissal, retirement)
- Post-termination issues (e.g., settlement negotiation, litigation, post-termination entitlements and obligations)
Other Practitioners
Labour relations and restructurings
- Employment aspects of corporate operations (e.g., employment due diligence, negotiation of representations and warranties, harmonization of collective status and other transfer-related issues)
- Works council (and other employee representatives) information and consultation procedures (e.g. drafting of the employee representatives documentation and assistance during the consultation procedure)
- Collective redundancies (e.g., drafting of the employee representatives documentation, job protection plans, correspondence with the Labour administration, internal communication, letters to employees)
- Employee representatives elections
- Issues associated with protected employees
- Collective negotiation (e.g., working-time, annual negotiations on wages, profit-sharing, agreements on senior employees, provisional management of jobs and skills, framework agreements)
Other Practitioners
Profit Sharing
Implementation and follow up of profit sharing schemes (compulsory and non compulsory profit sharing, savings schemes), tax optimisation, management of restructuring impact.
Other Practitioners
Nicolas Pregliasco
Stéphanie Le Men-Tenailleau
Publications
The audit of the employer’s annual accounts upon request of the works council
Two Supreme Court cases were issued on December 15, 2009 in relation to the prerogatives of the works council and the outside accountant they may appoint. The first case relates to the moment when the works council can request an audit of the annual accounts (n°08-17.722), while the second case relates to the right for the expert appointed by the works council to be provided with information about the annual accounts (n°08-18.228).
