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Chambers and Partners

“Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux is the height of vision and experience, allowing for precise and simple responses to complex problems.”

The Legal 500

“She has contributed her remarkable legal expertise to the many and diverse challenges we have been confronted with and helped us improve our managerial decisions and capabilities through her discretion, emotional intelligence, and tact.”

The Legal 500

“Her know-how and pragmatic approach are a real asset”

Legal 500

“I have been working with [her] for more than 12 years and have uniformly been extremely satisfied with the technical quality of legal work done.”

Lexology Index

“She is a brilliant employment law specialist who notably excels at handling social plans, transfers and contracts.”

         
Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux
Geneva

Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux

Partner, Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law

+41 22 707 8041

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Sara Rousselle-Ruffieux is a Partner in our Employment Law Group in Schellenberg Wittmer's Geneva office. 

Expertise

  Employment
  International Mobility & Investment Migration

Experience

  • Experience in all aspects of employment law, covering individual labour relations including review of contracts, employee handbooks, complex remuneration and bonus schemes, dismissals and termination agreements; and collective labour relations including collective dismissals, business transfers and assistance in M&A transactions, structure of severance payments, aspects of international employee transfers, staff leasing, work schedule reductions, recording of working time, employer’s liability, due diligence
  • Advising and representing clients in cross-border employment matters and global mobility, including social security coordination

Career

Professional Experience
2026
Partner at Schellenberg Wittmer
2023
Head of Employment Law in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne
2019
Counsel in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne
2017
Senior Associate in a large business law firm in Geneva & Lausanne
2013
Managing Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm, Co-head of Employment law
2005
Senior Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm
2004
In-house Legal Attorney in an international Bank
1998
Associate in a prominent Swiss business law firm
Education and Admission
2011
Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law
1998
Bar Admission in Switzerland
1995
Master of Law, University of Fribourg
Additional Professional Activities
  • Board member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
  • Former Vice-Chair of AROSDT (Association Romande des Spécialistes de Droit du Travail/ West Switzerland Association of Employment Law Specialists)
  • Long-standing trainer and member of the exam jury for judges of the Geneva Labour Courts
 

Recognitions

  • Chambers and Partners Europe: Employment
  • The Legal 500: Employment 
  • Lexology Index Switzerland: Employment 

Languages

  • French
  • English
 

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