Employment

KBD Partners provides comprehensive legal support on employment and labour law matters, advising both domestic and international clients on regulatory compliance, workforce structuring, employee relations, and dispute resolution. Our employment practice blends thorough legal expertise with practical insights into workplace dynamics across diverse industries.

Our Capabilities

• Advising on hiring and secondment of expatriate employees, including exchange control, immigration, and expatriate taxation issues
• Assisting with deputation of Indian personnel abroad and ensuring compliance with foreign employment and exchange regulations
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts, secondment and deputation agreements, and employee restrictive covenants such as non-disclosure and non-compete clauses
• Structuring redundancy policies, termination procedures, and negotiating severance packages
• Representing clients in employment-related litigation before civil courts
• Advising on labour law compliance and industrial relations matters across jurisdictions
• Consulting on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), stock appreciation rights, and conducting internal investigations into white-collar corporate fraud
• Developing executive and employee-level compliance programs, including risk assessments
• Drafting corporate governance codes such as insider trading and disclosure codes under SEBI regulations

Select Experience

• Conducted a detailed compliance risk assessment and enhanced executive compliance programs for corporate clients
• Provided legal support to a Danish technology company in an internal corporate fraud investigation involving a senior executive
• Drafted “Code for Internal Procedure & Conduct for Prevention of Insider Trading” and “Code of Corporate Disclosure Practices” for a leading FMCG company in line with SEBI requirements
• Prepared labour law applicability reports and employee handbooks for  multinational clients, including a Spanish retail conglomerate and a Swiss photovoltaics manufacturer
• Advised on expatriate employment structuring, including exchange control and immigration compliance for cross-border personnel movements