Emilia Kalecka

Senior Associate

Attorney-at-law (radca prawny)

Warsaw
About

Emilia Kalecka advises on individual and collective employment law.

She has extensive experience in representing Polish and multinational clients in various employment law and social security disputes, as well as supporting them in complex employment restructuring processes (often involving individual and collective redundancies). She prepares and negotiates employment and civil law contracts, including non-compete agreements (in particular for senior management roles) and provides comprehensive assistance to clients on the employment aspects of setting up a business in Poland, including drafting internal regulations and bonus schemes.

Emilia has also worked on numerous M&A transactions, conducting legal audits and due diligence reviews as well as advising on transfers of undertakings.

She regularly runs training courses on employment law issues and has authored and co-authored many articles in legal journals and academic periodicals.

Areas of FocusEmploymentLitigation, Arbitration and Investigations
Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law (Radca prawny) registered with the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law (Okręgowa Izba Radców Prawnych w Warszawie), 2023

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising multinational groups on employment-related post-transactional activities, including employment restructuring and the drafting and negotiating of new contracts with management board members.
  • Representing a leading IT company in complex court proceedings initiated by a former employee concerning reinstatement to work. This involved preparing the litigation strategy, gathering evidence, drafting documents, negotiating with the opposing counsel, and ensuring the effective representation of the client's interests throughout the proceedings.
  • Providing support to international companies, including leading IT sector companies, in a number of complex issues related to global mobility and the relocation of foreign employees to Poland.
  • Providing ongoing advice to international capital groups, including world leaders in the automotive and household appliances industries, and preparing employment law documentation.
  • Advising one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies in over one hundred proceedings initiated by the Social Security Agency (ZUS), as well as in court proceedings against the National Health Fund concerning the establishing of compulsory health insurance coverage.
  • Providing ongoing support to clients in multifaceted projects related to business alignment, cost-optimisation and organisation of workplaces during the COVID-19 epidemic.
  • Representing clients before the courts in matters relating to employment law and social security, including employment, accidents at work and overtime pay.
  • Supporting Polish and multinational clients in the implementation of amendments to remuneration and bonus regulations.
  • Supporting an international energy group in dealing with a serious accident at work.*
  • Providing ongoing support to a multinational pharmaceutical company in carrying out a collective redundancy process.*
*denotes experience from previous firm.
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Education
  • University of Łódź, Master of Laws, 2018

Prior Experience

  • July 2024 – present, Senior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • November 2021 – June 2024, Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • December 2019 – November 2021, Junior Associate, DLA Piper, Warsaw
  • April 2019 – December 2019, trainee attorney-at-law, Law Firm, Warsaw
  • April 2017 – April 2019, Legal trainee, Law Firm, Warsaw

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