Castrén & Snellman Attorneys Ltd and HR and payroll service experts Silta Oy have embarked on a new kind of cooperation concerning employment law services. Thanks to this new cooperation, Silta’s clients can now bring all their employment law matters to the company and get employment relationship and labour law services from one familiar source.
7.6.2016
Castrén & Snellman and Silta Begin Cooperation
Among other things, this new employment law service provides clients with advice on how to resolve various questions of interpretations and how to act in challenging employment law situations. Clients can also use the service to check how to implement their company’s statutory labour obligations. The service includes:
Service from Finland’s Leading Companies
Castrén & Snellman is a Finnish law firm with the largest team of employment law specialists in Finland. The team’s expertise cover’s all areas of employment law.
Silta is Finland’s leading HR and payroll service expert that provides its clients with a unique combination of expertise, experience and reliability.
Silta has solid knowledge of working life expertise in approximately 90 collective agreements. When combined with the extensive employment law experience of Castrén & Snellman’s lawyers, this partnership can provide excellent support for clients in both day-to-day matters and more extensive employment law issues.
Castrén & Snellman Managing Partner Pauliina Tenhunen on the New Partnership:
‘Our job is to help our clients succeed in a rapidly changing world. We want to be open-minded about building new kinds of ecosystems to support companies and to challenge our own familiar ways of thinking. We share similar values with Silta, which makes Silta a great partner to innovate new services with.’
Silta Managing Director Tatu Tulokas Agrees:
‘We are very excited about this new partnership, which will allow us to be an even more full-service business partner to our clients. Our clients have wanted a more extensive service relating to the interpretation of certain kinds of employment law matters and comprehensive support in change situations. This partnership makes it possible to answer these needs, among others. This partnership we are announcing is part of our new strategy, which is focused on providing an excellent client experience and offering “human-to-human” service.’
For more information, please contact:
Castrén & Snellman
Pauliina Tenhunen
pauliina.tenhunen@castren.fi
Tel. 020 7765 406
Silta Oy
Tatu Tulokas
tatu.tulokas@silta.fi
Tel. 050 393 5073
Castrén & Snellman
Castrén & Snellman was established in the late spring of 1888. Decades of supporting our clients’ success have enabled us to grow into a firm of over 250 people. We have offices in Helsinki, Moscow and St Petersburg. Today, our job is to help our clients succeed in a rapidly changing world. Castrén & Snellman’s turnover was approximately 42 million euros in the February 2015–January 2016 financial period.
Silta Oy
Silta Oy is a leading HR and payroll service expert organisation. Our clients rely on our expertise way or working in comprehensive outsourcing projects, HR support and improving personnel wellbeing. Silta’s turnover in 2015 was approximately 21 million euros. Our company employs approximately 270 people.
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