Labor and Employment
Our labor and employment practice area provides counselling to national and international companies in all matters related to labor and employment law, including hiring processes, compensation packages, termination of employment relationships, employment regulation, compliance reviews, internal investigations, corporate policies, social security, employee taxation and subcontracting. We also render services on collective bargaining and litigation.
- Daily assistance to human resources and payroll departments.
- Assistance in hiring processes, including preparation of offer letters.
- Employment agreements and annexes.
- Compensation and benefit packages, including stock options.
- Social security and employee taxation.
- Corporate policies.
- Warning letters and other sanctions applicable to employees.
- Sexual harassment and employee harassment investigations in compliance with corporate regulations.
- Individual and collective dismissals.
- Counselling on matters related to employment accidents and professional diseases, including representation of the employer before health and security authorities.
- Training and lecturing on employment legislation and social security law.
- Auditing and review of employment legal compliance.
- Review of employment compliance in M&A processes.
- Counselling on subcontracting matters and outsourcing of services, including service agreements and contracts.
- Personnel supply agreements.
- Assistance in handling relationships with unions.
- Assistance during collective bargaining processes, including an analysis and preparation of strategies on the best alternatives on how to handle it.
- Counselling on the execution of collective agreements and instruments and their potential amendment.
- Judicial representation of the employer when facing anti-union practices or other administrative actions related to collective bargaining matters.
- Representing the client before social security authorities.
- Assistance and representation in administrative complaints and administrative proceedings.
- Representing employers in individual or collective employment judicial actions, including unjustified termination trials, breach of fundamental rights actions, labor accidents and professional diseases.
- Representing the employer in labor litigation claims concerning labor accidents and professional diseases.
- Assistance and representation of the employer in health or sanitary proceedings before the relevant administrative authority.
