{"id":12066,"date":"2026-01-22T16:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/?p=12066"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:43:03","slug":"happy-new-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/news-labor-lawyers\/happy-new-year-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin the year, the entire Patchwork.Law team sends you our best wishes for 2026: good health, peace of mind, and every success in your projects.<\/p>\n<p>In a demanding social and economic environment, we remain by your side with the same guiding principle: to secure your decisions, prevent risks, and deliver practical, operational solutions in employment law.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBest wishes for 2026<\/em><br \/>\n<em>May this new year bring peace of mind, shared success, and harmonious working relationships.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We are delighted to start 2026 alongside you, with the same enthusiasm and energy as ever.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wishing you all a wonderful and happy year!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>2026: our priorities to support our clients in employment law<\/h2>\n<p>In 2026, we are strengthening our commitment: delivering cutting-edge expertise in employment and labour law, and solutions tailored to your challenges.<\/p>\n<h3>Our concrete commitments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Responsiveness<\/strong> in HR emergencies (suspension, disciplinary hearing invitation, internal crisis, sensitive communications)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clarity<\/strong>: clear, prioritised, actionable recommendations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risk-proofing<\/strong>: procedure, evidence, timeline, documentation<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pragmatism<\/strong>: a strategy adapted to your context (size, constraints, culture, exposure)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What we take away from last year<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Prevention remains the best \u201cinvestment\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In employment law, many disputes arise from details: a procedure, a document, or evidence that is not properly framed. In 2025, the most effective approaches were those combining <strong>legal certainty<\/strong> and <strong>traceability<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The human factor is at the heart of risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sensitive situations (tensions, alerts, breakdown of trust) require careful steering: listen, establish the facts, protect\u2014and decide. Employment law is an area where form is often inseparable from substance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12045 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carte-de-Voeux-2026-Patchwork.jpg\" alt=\"Happy New Year 2026 - Patchwork Avocats\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carte-de-Voeux-2026-Patchwork.jpg 600w, https:\/\/patchwork.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Carte-de-Voeux-2026-Patchwork-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin the year, the entire Patchwork.Law team sends you our best wishes for 2026: good health, peace of mind, and every success in your projects. In a demanding social and economic environment, we remain by your side with the same guiding principle: to secure your decisions, prevent risks, and deliver practical, operational solutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-labor-lawyers","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patchwork.law\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}