Dafna Shmuelevich & Co.

Dafna Shmuelevich & Co. is a boutique labor and employment law firm who represents "the voice of employers". The firm believes that employers consulting, especially to major companies, in both the private and public sectors, is a unique area of expertise, which requires professionalism and a conceptual understanding of the employers' needs, tailored to each employer individually.

The firm ideology recognizes the importance of employers' freedom of occupation and property rights and strives to provide its clients with tools to exercise their right to maximum managerial flexibility in a way that promotes the prosperity of both the employer and the welfare of its employees.

"The voice of employers"

Chambers, 2021

The firm's staff includes partners and lawyers with many years of experience accompanying, representing, and advising major local and global employers. In addition to the ongoing support and counselling, the team is oriented towards total willingness to accompany the employer in times of crisis, complex cases, and challenging periods

The firm's founder, Dafna Shmuelevich, tear one in the prestigious Chambers rankings, has been practicing labor and employment law for more than 30 years, specializes in the collective labor relations field, and is identified as "the voice of employers".

The other partners in the firm are experienced lawyers who have worked alongside Dafna Shmuelevich for a long time, and have taken a significant part in the achievements she has been credited with: Each team member contributed to the creation of groundbreaking legal rulings, implementing effective recovery plans, signing of modern and precedent collective agreements, and formulating significant changes at the workplace during structural changes.

The firm provides its customers with personal service, and the team members are fully available, with maximum accessibility, and accompany the client as needed. An absolute assimilation is created between the lawyers and the client, enabling optimal services to the client's needs.

The firm focuses on the following areas

Structural changes at the workplace

Advising and accompany major changes at the work place:

Restructure and relocation of business; Recovery plans; Redundancy; Downsizing; Mass Layoffs; Acquisitions; Mergers, and others.

As of October 7^th events – the team specialized in creating emergency work arrangements forced by the national special security needs.

Consultation and representation in collective labor law, in all aspects

Primary unionization; collective bargaining; ongoing accompaniment of collective labor relations; recovery agreements; Labor disputes, and more.

Class actions

Motion to decertify class actions and managing the strategy of defense in the claim.

Fair workplace environment and DEI policies

Implementation and training for supervisors and managers regarding prevention of sexual harassment, bullying and abuse at the workplace; Conducting an investigation and providing recommendations and representation in these claims; ongoing consultation and assistance of implementing DEI (diversion, equality and inclusion) policies; conducting gender equal payments annual reports. As of October 7^th events the firm is engaged in Pro bono activities of consulting employers in tackling Antisemitism at the workplace.

High profile employment law individual cases

Law suits of senior employees; claims of misclassification by Independent contractors or free lancers; cases regarding unconventional employment formats (such as third party employees or gig platform engagements); financial claims with broad implications; and more.

Day to Day consulting

accompanying employers on the ongoing issues of labor and employment law and management issues – employment agreements; applicability of industry collective agreements and/or extension orders; employees hearing procedures; disciplinary proceedings and more.

The firm's staff actively participates in prestigious labor and employment law forums, and lectures on various related topics at highly professional conferences. The team members periodically publish opinion columns or guidelines on hot topics at the center of public discourse in the labor market.

The firm's team is known for thinking outside the box, finding creative solutions for clients, and developing innovative areas of labor law, in accordance with the market's changing needs.

The firm leads the market in implementing modern employment arrangements for hybrid work, adapting the workplace to labor new trends (Data privacy issues, AI implementation, and more). As of October 7^th events – the team specialized in creating emergency work arrangements