Speechlys’ employment law specialist launches book on employing expatriates

21 April 2009

We are pleased to announce that Speechly Bircham’s employment law specialist, Juliet Carp, has written a book which provides detailed practical guidance on employing expatriates. Written from the employer’s perspective, Drafting Employment Documents for Expatriates (published by Jordans) serves the needs of UK lawyers, HR specialists and assignment managers preparing expatriate employment documents and severance agreements, as well as advisers from other countries dealing with the same issues.

Juliet Carp said “Globalisation of the world’s economies and increasingly mobile businesses are features of modern commercial life and there is a real need to ensure that documents used for mobile employees are appropriate. The issues relating to expatriate employment documents are complex and vary depending on the countries involved and it can be time consuming and painstaking work to identify all the relevant  compliance requirements associated with home and host country employment, immigration, tax, social security laws etc.  The book covers the key topics professionals need to understand to ensure the employment documents both support the objectives of the assignment and reduce commercial risk.  I hope that it will be helpful to everyone working in this area.”

Alan Julyan head of the Employment Group at Speechlys said “I believe this is an important book as there is no comparable book that deals with these important issues.  I think it will give people invaluable assistance and will become known as the leading book on the subject.“

To order a copy of the book, please visit www.jordanpublishing.co.uk

For more information, please contact:

Charlotte Souter, press office, on +44 (0)20 7427 6466, charlotte.souter@speechlys.com