LAW FIRM - AMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL PROCESS ASSISTANCE

SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION

GENERAL

For 40 years, the humanitarian aid organization Solidarités INTERNATIONAL has been committed to providing aid in the event of conflict and natural disasters. Our mission is to provide aid as quickly and as efficiently as possible to endangered populations by meeting their vital needs: drinking water, food and shelter.

After emergency, our humanitarian teams accompany the most vulnerable families and communities until they recover their livelihoods and self-sufficiency, to enable them to deal with the challenges of an uncertain future with dignity.

Solidarités INTERNATIONAL is particularly committed to fighting water-related diseases, the primary cause of death in the world today. Drawing on their expertise, our teams develop and carry out aid programs in the fields of water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as in the essential domains of food security and reconstruction.

CONTEXT

With around 100 national employees, it is important for the structure to be as close as possible to the respect of the law.

This is why Solidarites International is now looking for a law firm that can demonstrate experience in legal advice to International NGOs.

OBJECTIVES

The main objectives of this contractualisation are:

• To assist SI with any legal issues that may happen by answering questions or providing legal advice via emails, messages or phone calls, with a maximum of a 48 hours window, unless it is a real emergency in which case the legal firm has to answer our request within the same working day.
• To enable the legal firm to express an opinion on Solidarités International legal documents such as contracts, SoP, and Internal Staff Regulations;
• To assist Solidarités International with any legal and administrative process with the authorities;
• To provide Solidarités international with a legal watch that allows Solidarites International to comply with any law or decree;
• To have a focal point from the legal firm dedicated to Solidarite’s International and if the focal point is absent or out of reach, another person (deputy) would answer our requests.

EXPECTATIONS

In a more specific, but neither exclusive nor restrictive, manner:

• To provide a legal opinion on the Internal Staff Regulations review and its registration and legalization at the Ministry of Labor, as well as the update of the internal regulation whenever needed.
• To examine the actual Internal Staff Regulations of Solidarités INTERNATIONAL in regards to the Lebanese Labor Law and amendment acts to provide its recommendations to ensure its compliance with the legal framework.
• the final version of the Internal Staff Regulations should be validated
• To assist Solidarites international with the Follow up and updating of the registration with the Lebanese authorities at the Ministry of Interior – NGO department (replacement of the representative of SI in Lebanon, submitting annual budget, amendments and updating the ministerial decree,...).
• To examine the actual contracts (employment, Daily Workers and service) of Solidarités INTERNATIONAL in regards to the Lebanese Labor Law and decrees to provide its recommendations to ensure its compliance with the legal framework.
• Recommendations are expected to be presented under a commented version of the actual contracts of Solidarités INTERNATIONAL. Exhaustive official English version of all related legal texts should be in annexes.
• the final version of the standard contracts should be validated
• To provide a legal opinion on working hours, salary payment, holidays, trial periods, leaves, allowances, benefits.
• To assist Solidarités INTERNATIONAL with the contract termination process with the Ministry of Labor within the whole procedure with MoL and provide advices, follow up and updates when arises.
• Drafting and wording of agreements concerning the activities of SI in Lebanon, including lease contracts for office spaces, warehouses and expatriates housing. Or MoU to be signed with any others partners.
• Introducing and following up administrative procedures in front of the different Lebanese public administrations: Ministry of Telecoms, Electricité Du Liban, Municipalities, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Social Affairs, Customs, General
• To assist SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL with any other legal issues that may happen by answering questions or providing legal advice via emails, messages or phone calls, preferably a 48 hours window (with the clear exception of cases when longer periods of time are needed or for emergencies ).

DURATION

1 year, renewable.