Employment Practice

We offer employment practice, in manner which ensures that our clients are not only compliant with the applicable state as well as central labour and employment laws in India, but also well-positioned to build motivated, compliant, and high-performing workplaces.

We provide comprehensive legal support across the full spectrum of employment and service law matters, helping both domestic and foreign clients navigate India’s complex and evolving labour landscape. From workforce structuring to structuring executive compensation plans, dispute resolution, and statutory compliance, we deliver practical, business-aligned solutions tailored to take into account both employer obligations and organisational goals.

Our Employment Practice Include:

We are proficient in helping clients in setting up their overall employment functions, not only addressing the critical mass of the regulatory requirements under central as well as state specific employment statutes, but also in sync with current employment trends and practices, in India.

We provide end-to-end support across the employment spectrum—including hiring, workplace structuring, statutory compliance, HR policies, separation, and dispute resolution—ensuring operational clarity and minimized risk at every stage.

We help in building and safeguarding workforce by drafting, reviewing, and updating employment contracts and policies that are clear, enforceable, and compliant with current legal standards. While we customize each document to suit your specific business needs—defining roles, remuneration, benefits and restrictive covenants, we also ensure that they are legally sound.

We assist employers and employees in navigating the statutory requirements of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, by drafting and implementing robust anti-sexual harassment policies, establishing Internal Complaints Committees, and conducting awareness and compliance training. Our approach ensures timely redressal of complaints, legal compliance, and a safe, respectful work environment where incidents are addressed swiftly and confidentially—helping organizations safeguard their people, reputation, and workplace culture.

We help in building and safeguarding workforce by drafting, reviewing, and updating employment contracts and policies that are clear, enforceable, and compliant with current legal standards. While we customize each document to suit your specific business needs—defining roles, remuneration, benefits, confidentiality, non-compete, and dispute resolution provisions, we also ensure that they are legally sound.


We also advise on best practices for employment policies, ensuring your organization operates transparently and remains protected against regulatory and workplace risks.

We help clients resolve employer-employee disputes through strategic advice, negotiation, and, where necessary, robust representation before labor courts, tribunals, and arbitration forums. Our approach emphasizes early intervention, compliance with applicable laws, and clear documentation—minimizing disruption and fostering fair, enforceable resolutions for wage, termination, benefits, or workplace conduct issues

We assist employers in navigating and resolving employee grievances by designing clear, accessible grievance policies, and advising on each step—from informal resolution, documentation, and investigation, to conducting fair hearings and implementing corrective actions. Our guidance helps ensure compliance, confidentiality, and timely closure of issues—strengthening workplace trust and minimizing the risk of disputes escalating into formal proceedings.

Comprehensive, Lifecycle Advisory
We offer holistic legal and strategic support across every stage of the employment lifecycle—enabling organizations to attract, manage, develop, and transition talent efficiently and compliantly.

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Attraction & Recruitment: Advising on employer hiring practices, offer terms, employment terms, and best practices for diverse and strategic hiring.

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Onboarding: Drafting offer letters, contracts, confidentiality and invention assignment agreements etc. ensuring compliance and seamless integration of new employees.

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Development & Engagement: Structuring employee benefits, ESOPs, training agreements, and performance management systems that foster growth and retention.

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Compliance & Policy Management: Legal advisory on workplace policies, statutory benefits, workplace safety (including POSH), and ongoing regulatory obligations.

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Separation, Termination & Resignation: Assisting with statutory and contractual requirements for resignation, termination (including disciplinary and redundancy cases), notice periods, exit interviews, full and final settlements, and drafting severance and release documents. We ensure that both employer and employee rights and obligations are clear, compliant, and that exits are managed fairly and professionally.

Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) and Employee Benefits
We take a holistic approach to employee benefits—ensuring legal compliance while creating tools that drive retention, performance, and long-term value creation for both employers and employees. Ours services, in this regard include:

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Structuring, Designing and Drafting ESOPs: We specialise in designing and implementing legally compliant, tax-efficient, and performance-driven employee benefit structure including Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) and other incentive schemes, tailored to suit our client’s requirements. We seamlessly assist in planning of grant of sweat equity and Employee Stock Options, including structuring ESOP pools, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights and sweat equity schemes, tailored to suit start-ups, private companies, and listed entities.

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End-to-End ESOP Implementation: We provide assistance in drawing the framework of ESOP Plans, vesting schedule, terms of grant, implementation mechanism and drafting the requisite policies and contractual documents, assessing the legal, tax, and regulatory aspects of. We also assist in the corporate steps, approvals and documentation required for the adoption and implementation of such plans, including shareholder approvals, regulatory filings, board resolutions, in compliance with applicable laws.

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We advise clients on structuring employee benefits in line with Indian statutory requirements: Covering essentials like Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), Employees’ State Insurance (ESI), gratuity, paid leave, and maternity benefits—helping ensure legal compliance and risk mitigation. Beyond these, we help businesses design and implement additional benefits such as health insurance, performance bonuses, flexible work arrangements, and tailoring benefit packages.

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We draft clear, compliant employee benefits policies: Our team ensures that all policies are up to date with current legal requirements, easy to understand, and tailored to organizational needs—thereby supporting effective implementation, minimizing disputes, and empowering both employers and employees to understand their rights and entitlements.

Addressing employment aspects in M&A Transactions

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Advisory on employee transfer and transition, including highlighting matters such as lay-off, retrenchment under applicable statutory provisions;

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Conducting due diligence on existing ESOP structures during fundraising, acquisitions, or corporate restructuring, and advising on treatment of vested/unvested options in case of exits, transfers, or liquidity events.

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Advisory on continuity of employment benefits, treatment of statutory benefits, including payment or carry forward thereof, in view of M&A transactions, including issuance of notices, carrying out of necessary reporting, filings under relevant statutes etc.;

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Advisory on treatment of ESOPs as well as RSUs, including planning and implementing buyback of employee options and payouts towards ESOPs;

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Drafting employee transfer agreement, notices, offer letters and appointment letters offering terms that are no less favourable than the existing terms, restrictive covenants etc.

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