14.9.2020

Jutta Nieminen Appointed as Counsel in Employment and Data & Technology Services

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Experienced attorney Jutta Nieminen started work as counsel at Castrén & Snellman on 14 September 2020. She will be working in our Employment and Data & Technology services. Jutta has extensive experience, among other things, of drafting manager agreements, employment termination situations and planning and implementing co-operation negotiations.

‘We are very happy to bring Jutta onto the team. Jutta is a distinguished expert with solid experience of labour restructuring, co-operation procedures and employment termination situations. Jutta will further strengthen our fourteen-lawyer employment team’s versatile expertise’, says Partner Tomi Kemppainen, co-head of our Employment service.

Jutta will also assist clients in a wide range of employment-related data protection matters, such as drafting privacy statements concerning job applicants and employees, drafting instructions for using data networks and email as well as advising employers on their data protection obligations.

‘Jutta brings to our skilled data protection team extensive experience of handling workplace data protection matters, which are becoming more and more important in our clients’ day-to-day business’, says Partner Eija Warma-Lehtinen, head of our Data Protection & Privacy service.

‘I am excited for this opportunity to join the ranks of Castrén & Snellman’s experts, who I highly respect. I will be providing the firm’s clients with comprehensive and practical advice in all employment law and workplace data protection issues, Jutta says.

Before joining Castrén & Snellman, Jutta worked at Bird & Bird, Borenius and Hannes Snellman. Jutta is a member of the Finnish labour law association and the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).

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