SyCipLaw’s Employment and Immigration Department (EID) provides exceptional and comprehensive legal services and representation in both employment and immigration practice areas that spring from a uniquely vast and deep experience advising clients in a broad range of adversarial, bargaining, compliance, and transactional settings, involving wide, often complex, range of issues and variety of players. In adversarial settings, we provide clients full support in the formulation and implementation of strategies, and clients have been able to look to us to deal with problems and situations effectively and sensitively. We have extensive experience dealing with labor organizations and representing management in collective bargaining negotiations opposite labor organizations. Our lawyers regularly represent clients before regulatory agencies and labor courts. We have handled several landmark cases that involve novel questions of law that enriches Philippine jurisprudence on labor and employment. In transactional settings, we have conducted employment due diligence and advised clients on complex deals where employment is the key area of concerns of the parties. On a regular basis, our clients look to us for guidance in ensuring that they remain compliant with their employment and immigration requirements.
Our lawyers are members of various reputable employer groups in the Philippines and are active in international networks further enhancing the practice of our department and giving us access to reliable support not only in matters of national reach but also those that span across multiple jurisdictions. Finally, the presence of SyCipLaw in four major cities (Makati, Clark, Cebu and Davao) of the Philippines enhances its ability to represent and assist clients anywhere in the country.
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