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Sophia Bernardi

Senior Associate

CMS Pasquier Ciulla & Marquet
Villa des Cigognes
17 rue Louis Aureglia
BP 450
98012 Monaco Cedex
Monaco
Languages French, English

Sophia Bernardi is a Senior Associate in the Employment team.

She advises and assists a variety of employers, such as private individuals and companies/groups of companies in different sectors, on various employment law matters.

With regard to litigation, Sophia has developed a significative practice in areas such as working conditions, overtime, harassment, dismissal and professional elections/union representation.

As part of her consulting practice, Sophia advises on individual relations matters, including their international dimensions. She also assists employers with their legal obligations towards their employees, particularly regarding personal data, collective relations, and safety at work.

Before joining the firm in 2018, Sophia worked for two years in another law firm.

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Publications

  • Crew members, labor law and social protection: sailing without sinking, Monaco Economie (2023)
  • The new reality of employment – how to avoid a crisis?, Monaco Economie (2022)
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Education

  • French Bar (2016)
  • Master II  Justice and Proceedings, Paris II Pantheon-Assas University (2013)
  • Master’s degree in Business Law, Paris II Pantheon-Assas University (2012)
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14/03/2024
Variable compensation tools linked to business results
Remuneration is very often at the heart of the employment relationship: it can be a vector of individual motivation, encouraging the performance of the employee and therefore ultimately of the business...
13/10/2023
CMS Monaco advised the company COMETH SOMOCLIM in the acquisition of 100%...
Cometh Somoclim SAM, mostly owned by ENGIE Solutions, operates in the fields of air conditioning, heating, ventilation and energy services in Monaco. This transaction enables it to integrate into its...
09/06/2022
Creation of an annual right to rest
The European concept of an annual right to rest first appeared in a notable ruling of 22nd November 2011 by the European Union Court of Justice (EUCJ), according to which paid leave have "a dual purpose...
13/01/2022
Employment issues for individual employers
Any private individual becomes an employer once they hire cleaning, childcare, sick care, gardening or administrative assistance staff, and must therefore be confronted with various issues that evolve...
11/11/2021
Overtime work & income taxation
Since 1 January 2019, the amounts received by French employees for working overtime can be exempt from income tax, up to an annual ceiling of €5,000 net. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, this amount was...
26/01/2021
CMS On your radar
The employment team is pleased to share with you its latest edition of On your radar, our newsletter on employment law hot topics in Europe.2020 was not all about COVID-19, and neither will 2021 !For...
14/01/2021
The Future is Now: The new world of work in Monaco
At the dawn of a possible re-confinement and at a time when the conditions for maintaining the application of Monegasque law to employees teleworking on French soil - at least one third of the working...
16/06/2020
Monaco business community turns to corporate internal investigations
Whistleblower series: Monaco For an internal investigation in Monaco, the specific type of allegation will – in many cases – determine how an inquiry should be conducted. For example, if an employee...
19/05/2020
Internal investigations in HR cases – best practices in Monaco
It’s Sunday afternoon and you have just looked at your company email. An anonymous person has sent you information that your star sales manager is stealing money from the company, has harassed other...
27/04/2020
COVID-19 and Continued Activity
Governmental intervention in the management of dismissals, work organisation and other measures Information on the latest em­ploy­ment meas­ures envisaged by the Monaco Government On 24 April 2020, Monaco...
01/04/2020
COVID-19 and HR Risk Management | Dismissals
Proper balance is what makes Article 6 of Act No 729 so special in the Principality of Monaco Governmental clarifications on dismissals in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic At a press conference given...
13/03/2020
CMS On your radar | Issue 12
In this edition of On Your Radar, our Employment team in Monaco dis­cusses elec­tron­ic payslips, a option recently introduced by the Ministerial Decree No. 2019-1088, which is likely to be widely used...