LABOR and Social Security

Highly specialized advice on labor and social security matters with a personalized and dynamic support to national and foreign clients, always seeking alternative solutions that encompass the necessary legal security. The firm also has a strong presence in the judicial and administrative litigation areas.

Our services include:

• Complex and strategic cases, such as Public Civil Actions, rescissory lawsuits, writs of mandamus, provisional measures, lawsuits for review, and lawsuits for the annulment of notices of infraction in all judicial and administrative instances;
• Collective Bargaining Agreements related to strikes (economic and legal), prohibitory injunctions, enforcement of decisions, collective lawsuits, and lawsuits involving union relations;
• Procedures and public civil inquiries filed by the Labor Public Attorney’s Office;
• Administrative proceedings before the Ministry of Labor and participation in negotiation meetings;
• Consulting services in union negotiations, preparation of collective agreements such as “hour-banks”, profits/results participation programs, and mass dismissals;
• Preparation and review of remuneration and benefits policies, and codes of conduct and company’s internal regulations;
• Specialized services related to contracts and terminations of high-ranking executives and expatriates;
• Union filiation procedures;
• Labor Compliance, advice, and participation in internal investigations and in terminations for cause;
• Labor audits and evaluation of risks;
• Training on best labor practices and courses on employer representation in judicial hearings;
• Structuring, revision, amendments, and extinction of private pension plans; and
• Disputes related to social security benefits and administrative appeals.