Are you look­ing for a con­fi­dent and con­vinc­ing spe­cial­ist in pri­vate or pub­lic sec­tor employ­ment law? A sea­soned pro­fes­sion­al and high­ly skilled, expe­ri­enced prac­ti­tion­er? Then you’ve come to the right place!

Dr. Heinz Heller holds a doc­tor­ate in employ­ment law. Those who have com­plet­ed a doc­tor­ate are able to struc­ture infor­ma­tion and dis­tin­guish between what is essen­tial and what is not. And Dr. Heller was one of the first Spe­cial­ist Lawyers SBA Employ­ment Law in Switzer­land (cer­ti­fied in 2008). In addi­tion, Dr. Heller has over 20 years of pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence in pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor employ­ment – all accom­pa­nied by exten­sive lec­tur­ing and numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions in employ­ment law (see menu item «Pub­li­ca­tions»).

Dr. Heller advis­es and rep­re­sents pri­mar­i­ly larg­er employ­er clients, based on rela­tion­ships that last for years – both in pri­vate and pub­lic sec­tor employ­ment. This includes rep­re­sen­ta­tion in employ­ment-law-dis­putes as well as, for exam­ple, the fol­low­ing typ­i­cal topics:

• Draft­ing of sophis­ti­cat­ed con­tract claus­es, for exam­ple regard­ing dis­cre­tionary bonus­es or post-con­trac­tu­al non-com­pe­ti­tion clauses
• Draft­ing of tai­lor-made flex­time policies
• HR-staff train­ing regard­ing the cor­rect step-by-step-han­dling of work­place dis­putes (band­with from cor­rect file notes to legal­ly com­pli­ant inter­nal investigations)

In the case of employ­ees, Dr. Heller lim­its him­self to man­dates that con­cern sig­nif­i­cant vari­able salary com­po­nents (key­word «bonus») or that relate to over­time and extra hours. Apart from this area, employ­ees are often already very well served with a thor­ough one-time con­sul­ta­tion, i.e., with­out fur­ther rep­re­sen­ta­tion (see menu item «One-Time Con­sul­ta­tions»).

The pro­tect­ed title «Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA Employ­ment Law»  is a lawyer rank­ing you can rely on. The title is «a seal of qual­i­ty for spe­cif­ic legal advice – com­pa­ra­ble, for exam­ple, to the ‘FMH spe­cial­ist’ in med­i­cine» (Swiss Bar Asso­ci­a­tion). Only those who have under­gone a rig­or­ous selec­tion process (proof of expe­ri­ence) are admit­ted to spe­cial­ist lawyer train­ing. This is fol­lowed by uni­ver­si­ty train­ing and a final oral and writ­ten exams. Of the approx­i­mate­ly 13’000 lawyers prac­tic­ing in Switzer­land, only about one in a hun­dred qual­i­fies as a cer­ti­fied spe­cial­ist lawyer SBA in employ­ment law. Don’t set­tle for less. The title guar­an­tees ver­i­fi­able spe­cial­iza­tion with an annu­al con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion requirement.

There are also dif­fer­ences among spe­cial­ist lawyers. Call and lis­ten to your gut feel. Dr. Heller will take the time for you or return your call as soon as he learns about it.

We accept man­dates through­out the Ger­man-speak­ing part of Switzer­land, but also han­dle employ­er man­dates with head­quar­ters in Ger­man-speak­ing Switzer­land and branch­es in Tici­no. The man­date agree­ments are con­clud­ed with Heller Recht­san­walts AG and per­son­al­ly exe­cut­ed by Dr. Heller.