Employment and Labour
Our team advises on the full spectrum of challenges that do arise in the relationship between an employee and employer. We provide practical and efficient legal advice even at short notice often required in this dynamic field.
We have provided legal services to business enterprises, boards and company management teams on employment contracts and staff policy handbooks, labour relations and trade unions, employee transfer, employee benefits and issues of recruitment, retention and termination.
Our team of lawyers have the requisite knowledge of labour laws and employment benefits to ensure that both the company and the employees are protected with sound legal advice. Further, we also ensure that our advice enables our multi-national clientele to seamlessly integrate into the Zambian business environment.
Our key areas of practice include providing legal advice on:
Disciplinary proceedings and termination processes
Ventus advices local and multinational companies on disciplinary proceedings and on the process that ought to be followed during termination of employment. Our team has a robust understanding of these processes and is constantly keeping abreast with new developments in this area of the law.
Employee share options and other incentive schemes (ESOPs)
We leverage our knowledge of our client’s company structures and advise them on the best employee share options that are available to them and on the various incentive schemes that can be used.
Employment law contracts, policies and compliance
We draft contracts of employment for both local and multinational clients and ensure that they are in conformity with the requirement’s provided for under the Zambian Employment Code.
Immigration procedures and work permits
We assist our local and multinational clients with the procedure for applying for work permits and the whole immigration process for their expatriate employees.
Labour relations, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and trade union engagement
We draft collective bargaining agreements for various trade unions and over advice on various issues faced by members of trade unions.
Redundancies and transfer of employees
Ventus is alive to the many challenges that businesses face. In the previous years a lot of companies had to restructure in order to survive the Covid -19 pandemic and the many economic challenges that came with it.
Our scope of practice has allowed our team to be in a position to advise local and multinational companies on the procedures that they ought to follow during the process of declaring positions of employees redundant. Our team also helps individuals and companies understand the various options available to them so that the decisions made moving forward comply with the law.
