Overview
Our Employment practice has been a significant specialized area within our firm for more than 12 years. We have built an experienced and knowledgeable team that provides clients with coordinated and locally specific advice on the rules and regulations governing employment, labor, immigration, pensions and benefits.
We provide responses to the constantly evolving legislative and case law climate of Romania and EU. We handle the full range of employment and labor law matters for our clients, ensuring that they make informed decisions with respect to their employment and other employment related practices and policies. We devise case strategies and represent clients before the courts of relevant jurisdiction.
Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners combines strong technical expertise with a collaborative approach.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2026)
The team’s understanding of our business and commercial needs, are excellent.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2026)
The team is very prompt, has good knowledge and is specialised in all areas.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2026)
Very good specialists, very prompt in their responses, they quickly understand the case, even in niche situations, they have a very well trained and diversified team, able to offer solutions to various cases.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
I have been working with Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners for seven years and Catalin Micu and his team have always had a professional attitude and have always supported us in a swift manner when the situation asked it.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
The team is very well prepared, very professional and easy to reach out to.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
The professional way in which legal situations are approached. The professionalism of the team and the response provided in a very short time.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
Availability and constant attention to client needs.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
They’ve been on the Romanian market for 30 years and that shows in every matter we’ve handled with them. We are very happy with our cooperation, their service is solid and dependable. You know you’re backed by a full team, but you’re always dealing with people who know the file. They don’t delegate for the sake of it. They scope the work clearly and stick to it. They bring partner-level thinking even to routine matters, which saves us time and internal cost.
(The Legal 500 | 2026)
They are a very proactive team with an exceptional commitment to exceeding expectations.
Chambers and Partners ǀ 2025
They understand our demands and are able to offer very good and thorough solutions.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2025)
They are trustworthy, fast and client oriented.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2025)
A very professional team, with very skilled people, covering a lot of fields of legal activity. Their reply is very prompt and they are capable to fully understand each specificity of items diversity. They are able to offer any possible solutions and to sustain them with legal grounds.
(The Legal 500 | 2025)
ZRVP are a very well established and professional law firm, that has some of the best people in the field and top-quality management. They have a very tailored approach and a deep understanding on specific topics of interest. They know how to get things done efficiently.
(The Legal 500 | 2025)
Recognised expertise in management of individual and collective labor agreements, personnel restructuring and disciplinary proceedings.
(The Legal 500 | 2025)
Very professional team with extended experience on all areas.
(The Legal 500 | 2025)
Very prompt in answering on clients’ requests and always providing best solutions/alternatives.
(The Legal 500 | 2025)
We would warmly recommend Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners to each company who doesn’t need only a lawyer by their side, but also a partner ready to step in whenever needed.
(The Legal 500 | 2024)
Everyone at ZRVP is extremely talented and knowledgeable. They can handle anything and easily adapt to the specifics of the situation a client is in.
(The Legal 500 | 2024)
Zamfirescu Racoti, Vasile & Partners is one of the best law firms I have ever worked with.
(The Legal 500 | 2024)
The team is extremely knowledgeable, with top experts in their field. There is no question too complex.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2024)
In all projects we received solutions adapted to our business needs.
(Chambers and Partners ǀ 2024)
- Collective bargaining issues including trade union negotiations, negotiation/renegotiation and implementation of collective labor agreements
- Cost optimization related to the human resources involved in the production activity
- Day to day HR management
- Employee compensation and benefits
- Employees’ transfer as legal effect of the transfer of the company, unit or parts of them and/ or as effect of the transfer of shares (in the case of the listed commercial companies)
- Employment policies and procedures, including Codes of Conduct
- Employment and labor law aspects of corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions
- Employment and labor litigation
- Immigration Law including visas, work permits and international mobility
- International employment issues and dual contracts
- Local compliance
- Personnel restructuring: professional reconversion, individual and/or collective dismissals, voluntary lay-offs, anticipated retirement, change management, workforce strategy
- Redundancies and dismissals
- The legal auditing of commercial companies from the point of view of the labor law
Examples of our work include assistance to:
- A global leader in consulting, technology and digital transformation services, in the process of personnel management procedures, including the implementation of sophisticated exit procedures involving drafting a complex set of clauses securing the interests of the employer, creating the necessary mechanisms for avoiding the non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disparaging situations etc.;
- A leading international tobacco company, with a diverse workforce of around 77,000 people worldwide, in a significant training programme dedicated to key senior employees and representatives of trade unions. The training was focused on establishing the dialog mechanisms for a successful cooperation between key senior employees and trade union’s leaders to encourage a healthy climate in the organization;
- An independent, time-critical logistics specialist serving the airline industry in determining the model of its employment organization in Romania by integrating the client’s global values with local particularities;
- A leading global diversified building materials business employing 90,000 people worldwide, in implementing sophisticated personnel restructuring programmes in Romania, and drafting and negotiating the Collective Labour
- Agreement concluded at organizational level;
- A global high value consumer tyre company in the process of establishing the suitable strategy and implementing several procedures of personnel restructuring procedures, including sophisticated dismissal procedures.
Chambers Europe, Romania: Employment
Chambers and Partners | 2020
Chambers Europe, Romania: Employment
Chambers and Partners | 2019
The Legal 500 EMEA, Romania: Employment
The Legal 500 | 2019
Legal mechanisms for talent retention
Profit.ro ǀ 2020
What keeps the lawyers of the Employment department busy
Bizlawyer ǀ 2019
Switching to flextime is beneficial for both employers and employees
Revista Cariere | 2019
Three aspects every employer should know about GDPR
Revista Cariere | 2019
The labor law market between past and present
Wallstreet.ro, 2018
The dynamics of the labor law market face to face with the legislation
Wallstreet.ro | 2018
Interview about employment law and what it takes to stand out in the legal profession
Bizlawyer.ro, 2018
