At A Glance:

•    Hiring  
•    Dual Employment Contracts
•    Cross-Border Employment
•    Employee Manual and Policies
•    Contractor vs Employee Status Structuring
•    Employee Stock Option Plans
•    Transfer of Employees
•    Termination, Redundancy and Severance
•    Employee Misconduct
•    Employment and Work Passes
•    Entrepreneurial Work Status
•    Permanent Residence
•    Regulatory Compliance

We guide our clients through their navigation of employment-related matters, from knowing their regulatory obligations as employers to formulating employee policies in line with industry practices and norms and developing employment documents to reflect these. We also undertake work in relation to employee stock option plans and compensation structuring in relation to multi-jurisdiction employment.

In more delicate situations, we have assisted clients with the sensitive termination of high level personnel, redundancy, employee misconduct and the transfer of employees in connection with the disposal, acquisition or reorganization of businesses, including those arising out of outsourcing transactions.

We assist many of our corporate clients seeking to employ non-Singaporean individuals obtain the appropriate immigration and work passes and visas for such individuals to live and work in Singapore.

Our immigration work includes assisting entrepreneurial ventures to establish the appropriate business vehicles in Singapore and obtain the attendant immigration work visas for the foreign individuals driving such ventures as well as qualifying individuals to seek permanent residence status in Singapore.