Jozwik Barbara

Barbara Józ´wik is an attorney at law in the employment practice of Schoenherr Warsaw. Schoenherr is a leading law firm in Central Europe with offices in Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Sofia, Vienna,Warsaw and Zagreb. Barbara has more than fifteen years of experience as an employment attorney. Barbara is specializing in all aspects of employment law, including national and multi-jurisdictional issues, individual and collective employment law.

Barbara has particular experience in advising clients on drafting executive contracts, terminating contracts with top-managers, drafting internal regulations, such as remuneration and working rules, and workplace bullying procedures, advising employers on such issues as employee incentive plans, bonus arrangements, restructuring and redundancies as well as negotiating settlements. Her practice also includes negotiations with trade unions and works councils. She has experience with complex reorganizations and restructuring matters, including personnel reductions, works council/trade unions information/ consultation requirements, harmonization of employee benefits, transfer of undertakings.

Barbara represents clients in labour courts. Most disputes concern mobbing and discrimination issues but also dismissals, overtime and remuneration. Previously, Barbara worked as an attorney at law in the law firm Gleiss Lutz (2004-2008) and Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz (1998-2004) in Warsaw, at which she also specialized in employment matters. Barbara is admitted to the Polish Bar Association (1998) and is a graduate of the University of Warsaw (German philology and law, Master's degree in 1991 and 1993).

Barbara is a frequent speaker at seminars on labour law. In addition, she is the author of various books and publications on labour law in the Polish business press.