Public personnel law

A field of activity in which special sensitivity and in-depth expertise are required. Years of experience allow us to maintain an overview of the multitude of laws and regulations in order to offer customised solutions with foresight.

We assist public law institutions (federal government, cantons, municipalities, organisations, special-purpose associations, educational institutions) as well as employees in public personnel law.

Focussing on your needs, we maintain close personal contact with managers and HR managers. We are both advisors and counsellors when it comes to personnel law issues, the inherent political processes and the challenging legal questions and special features.

With our expertise in privatisation and remunicipalisation, we are committed to supporting you. You can also count on us when it comes to the organisation of personnel regulations and transactions, projects and the further development and adaptation of personnel law.

Our expertise also includes practical training and further education for employees with personnel responsibilities, regardless of their level of training.

Formal proceedings are not always necessary or appropriate in the event of a dispute. Conflicts can often be resolved amicably and in a way that conserves resources through mediation, interest-orientated negotiation and moderation. Here, too, you can draw on hba’s expertise.

At hba, comprehensive really does mean comprehensive.

Our range of services includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Establishment and amendment of employment relationships
  • Support during the dismissal process (warnings and cautions, employee appraisals, setting probationary periods, granting the right to be heard, drafting resignation orders)
  • Assistance in granting the right to be heard in the case of planned personnel law measures
  • Drafting of all types of personnel-related decrees (e.g. leave of absence or resignation decrees, transfers/change of function, recruitment in office)
  • Issues relating to substantive and temporal protection against dismissal
  • Employee appraisals
  • Administrative investigations, disciplinary investigations and other internal investigations
  • Disciplinary matters
  • Equality, discrimination, whistleblowing, bullying and bossing
  • Wage issues
  • Working hours, needs-based working time models and mobile working (home office)
  • Holidays and unpaid leave
  • Inability to work through no fault of your own
  • Organisation of personnel regulations and transactions, in particular the further development and adaptation of personnel law
  • Support for privatisation and remunicipalisation
  • Training and further education
  • data protection
  • Support and representation in appeal proceedings (internal administrative appeals, before authorities and courts)
  • mediation
  • legal opinions

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