Managing the employer’s restructuring process
An organisational change in the group's Türkiye operations required position planning, selection criteria, termination processes, and employee communications to be conducted within a single programme, with a discipline that manages reinstatement risk.
When an operational decision meets legal discipline
The restructuring decision had been made on commercial grounds; the risk lay in the sequencing of the implementation and in its documentation.
The defensibility of the selection criteria, the management of the time periods, and consistent communication were framed as the three pillars of preventing a wave of litigation.
Our Approach
Keeping the commercial objective at the centre, we broke the legal risks into measurable steps.
01 · Plan
The position map, the selection criteria, and the timeline were clarified after being run through a legal check.
02 · Document Framework
The termination files were standardised with justifications, minutes, and offer documents.
03 · Implementation & Communication
The meetings, the mutual-termination offers, and the official notices were run from a single centre.
Chronology
The main stages of the process.
An orderly closure that manages litigation risk
The process was completed with defensible criteria, standardised files, and consistent communication; a monitoring structure was left in place for post-process claims.
- Defensible selection criteria
- Standardised termination files
- Consistent employee communication
- A post-process monitoring arrangement
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First we clarify the commercial objective, risk appetite, timeline, and decision-maker needs. We then break the work into legal analysis, document/contract structure, and implementation steps, and manage the process through a single point of contact.
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In a short preliminary meeting, we take in the objective, the existing documents, the parties, the time pressure, and the critical risks. We then clarify the scope, team, timeline, and fee model.
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