Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Geneva / Employment

Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux is a Partner in our Employment Law Group in Schellenberg Wittmer's Geneva office.

Experience:

- Experience in all aspects of employment law, covering individual labour relations including review of contracts, employee handbooks, complex remuneration and bonus schemes, dismissals and termination agreements; and collective labour relations including collective dismissals, business transfers and assistance in M&A transactions, structure of severance payments, aspects of international employee transfers, staff leasing, work schedule reductions, recording of working time, employer’s liability, due diligence

- Advising and representing clients in cross-border employment matters and global mobility, including social security coordination

2026 – Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer

2023 - Head of Employment Law in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne

2019 - Counsel in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne

2017 - Senior Associate in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne

2013 - Managing Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm, Co-head of Employment law

2005 - Senior Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm

2004 - In-house Legal Attorney in an international Bank

1998 - Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm

French, English

- Board member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)

- Former Vice-Chair of AROSDT (Association Romande des Spécialistes de Droit du Travail/ West Switzerland Association of Employment Law Specialists)

- Long-standing trainer and member of the exam jury for judges of the Geneva Labour Courts

2011 - Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law

1998 - Bar Admission in Switzerland

1995 - Master of Law, University of Fribourg