Chiara Schirru

Chiara Schirru provides both contentious and non-contentious employment and labor law advice, with a focus on data protection and discrimination and harassment litigation, to clients across the private and public sectors. Her practice includes day-to-day support on employment and trade union matters, such as the negotiation and drafting of employment contracts, managing disciplinary and dismissal procedures, drafting company policies and collective agreements, and handling labor and social security litigation. She regularly represents clients before judicial and administrative authorities.

Concentrations

• Labor and employment

• Restructurings, dismissals and reorganizations

• Work council/trade unions consultation

• Outsourcing / transfer of undertaking

• Employment litigation

• Employment in the public sector

• Data protection in the workplace

• Discrimination and harassment litigation

Experience

Representative Matters

• Assisted a European group of companies leader in the production and sale of glass and crystal containers to implement the whistleblowing channel for several legal entities along EU countries, even coordinating the adaptation of the group whistleblowing procedure to the different jurisdictions in France, Germany, and Spain.°

• Assisted a group of Italian companies operating in the communication field for national and international pharmaceutical companies, to terminate the directorships and the employments with two managers holding shares of the mother company, while removing them from the position of chairman and CEO of some of the companies.°

• Advised the Italian wing of a Norwegian renewable energy producer on drafting and negotiating several collective company agreements, including agreements on flexible work hours and remote work, variable remuneration pay and welfare measures, business trips and career paths, and work-life balance aimed at introducing a framework of rules to support parenthood and families.°

• Advised an Italian industrial company of strategic interest admitted to the extraordinary administration procedure, leader in the market for the production of inverters for photovoltaic systems, in the closure of a productive plant in North Italy and managed the collective redundancy procedure of almost 60 employees ended with a trade unions agreement executed before the Ministry of Labour.°

• Assisted the Italian branch of an Irish company, part of U.S. multinational group in the money transfer sector, with the disciplinary dismissal of the CFO and the following judicial claim before the court of Rome.°

• Assisted an Italian company leader in the production of spirits and alcoholic beverage in the procedure before the Regional Councillor for Equality for alleged gender discrimination brought by the company against a female employee during her pregnancy.°

• Assisted the Italian company of a Swiss group leader in the lingerie retail sector with the disciplinary dismissal of four shop assistants and the following judicial claims before the court of Novara.°

• Assisted leading Italian public health care institutions with day-to-day employment matters.°

°The above representations were handled by Ms. Schirru prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig.

Previous Experience

• Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Chiara Schirru worked in the employment team of an international law firm and, previously, of leading Italian law firm.

Teaching Experience

• Lecturer, Executive Master in HR Administration and Employment Law, Ge.Ma. S.r.l. Società Benefit, 2023-Present

• Lecturer, Employment Law seminars, Sharecom S.r.l., 2022

Recognition & Leadership

Professional & Community Involvement

• Member, Bar Association of Milan, 2019-Present