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Mrs Barbara Jóźwik

+48 22 223 09 17 b.jozwik@schoenherr.eu View profile

Work Department

litigation | labour & employment

Position

Barbara Jóźwik is a partner in the employment practice of Schoenherr Warsaw. She has more than 20 years of experience as an employment lawyer. Barbara is specialising in all aspects of employment law, including national and multi-jurisdictional issues, individual and collective employment law. Barbara has particular experience in advising clients on drafting executive contracts, terminating contracts with top-managers, drafting internal regulations, such as remuneration and working rules, and workplace bullying procedures, advising employers on such issues as employee incentive plans, bonus arrangements, restructuring and redundancies as well as negotiating settlements. Her practice also includes negotiations with trade unions and works councils. She has experience with complex reorganizations and restructuring matters, including personnel reductions, works council/trade unions information/consultation requirements, harmonization of employee benefits, transfer of undertakings. Barbara represents clients in labour courts. Most disputes concern mobbing and discriminationissues but also dismissals, overtime, unequal treatment and  non-competition related issues. Barbara is a frequent speaker at seminars on labour law. In addition, she is the author of various books and publications on labour law in the Polish business press.

Languages

Polish, English, German

Memberships

Polish Bar Association

Education

University of Warsaw, Warsaw/Poland (Master’s degree in law 1993)
University of Warsaw, Warsaw/Poland (Master’s degree in German philology 1991)