We have successfully defended our client in a dispute with a conflicted employee

The Head of Pepeliaev Group’s Employment and Migration Law Practice Group, Vitalia Kuznetsova, has defended a client that is the leader on the tobacco market and a major FMCG company in Russia based on the volume of sales, in a dispute with a conflicted employee (a sales representative) who was dismissed for a number of disciplinary sanctions. The employee insisted that his dismissal was unlawful and also made a number of additional claims. The dispute is particularly significant for the company because it has set a positive, exemplary precedent in a company with several thousand employees working in similar circumstances. It is noteworthy that after the company's position was presented in court, the prosecutor's office, as an obligatory litigant in this category of disputes, fully accepted the company's position and endorsed such position in its opinion to the court.