About

  • Lívia’s practice focuses on employment law.
  • Her clients are typically from the automotive, manufacturing and financial services sectors.
  • Lívia deals with all areas of employment law, including day-to-day advice to employers, drafting contracts, terminations, and internal regulations, representing employers in litigation. She is an expert in working time arrangements, organisational restructurings and collective redundancies.
  • Lívia has significant experience in collective labour law, and regularly contributes to the drafting of collective agreements, participates in wage negotiations and negotiations with trade unions and works councils. She also advises on strike negotiations.
  • She regularly assists with legal due diligence, drafting and conducting transactions.
  • Lívia regularly provides internal trainings and presentations to clients.

Recent work

  • Represented an employer in the automotive industry in strike negotiations with trade unions, and also during the strike.
  • Developed a labour law concept for four-day work week for an employer in the financial services sector.
  • Created a hybrid working model for an employer in the shared services sector, including the preparation of the internal regulations and agreements for teleworking.
  • Represented a platform-based employer in employment litigation.
  • Offered employment law advice for a retail company in connection with its entry into the Hungarian market.
  • Acted for an employer in the automotive industry in negotiating the collective bargaining agreement with a trade union, including the drafting of the collective bargaining agreement.

Professional Background

  • Graduated from the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law in 2001.
  • Obtained a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree at Friedrich-Alexander University, Faculty of Law, Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany in 2002.
  • Graduated with an Employment Law Expert degree at University of Pécs in 2005.
  • Admitted to the Budapest Bar.
  • Completed an internship at a law firm in Germany in 2002; she then worked at a significant Hungarian law firm.
  • Acted as Guest Lecturer at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law in the department of Employment Law Expert studies.
  • Member of the Hungarian Employment Law Society.

Languages

  • Hungarian
  • English
  • German

Practice areas

Sector experience