Labor

The labor area has become a key piece in the management and business management in the dynamic and complex context in which currently operate organizations with global interests that transcend the national level.

The lawyers of the Labor Department are committed to offering a traditional legal service of high quality, for which it is essential to know in depth the particularities of the business of its clients. This, together with its international presence and avant-garde advice, allows them to provide strategic solutions with high added value in a transnational and demanding scenario such as the current one, collaborating in the success of its clients.

The Department of Labor Law, in continuous expansion, is composed of a team of professionals with extensive experience in the different specialties of labor law, in different jurisdictions and industries. The recognized experience of OGMT ABOGADOS's team of professionals stands out, among other issues, in procedural matters, measures of internal flexibility (substantial changes in working conditions and transfers), restructuring of staff, collective bargaining, senior management, productive decentralization processes, reorganizations companies, labor audits, social security and occupational risk prevention.

As part of the strategic advice on labor law, the Labor Department of OGMT ABOGADOS keeps its clients up-to-date on legislative and jurisprudential developments in the main countries in which we have offices.

COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL-LABOR ADVICE

Our services consist of legal-labor advice to national and multinational companies and their main objective is to help our clients to strategically manage their personnel, complying with current labor and social security regulations at all times.

Our collaboration allows the adoption of business decisions that optimize and facilitate the ordinary management of human resources, through a permanent and proactive contact that helps, in a practical way, to the immediate resolution of the issues that arise in the day to day business. This objective is achieved by assigning a defined team that, acquiring a deep knowledge of the business and the business reality of each client, adapts to it, maintaining a fluid and permanent contact based on availability and trust.

The professional services of our department are characterized by offering maximum versatility and specialty in the legal-labor area, including, among others, the following:

Labor hiring and special working conditions.
Senior management: contracts, special agreements, armor clauses and non-competition clauses, etc.
Remuneration and compensation systems (variable remuneration systems, flexible remuneration, participation in capital, etc.).
Advice on social security contribution and information on incentives or applicable benefits derived from the hiring.
Protective action of Social Security and complementary social security.
Measures of internal flexibility and, in particular, geographical and functional mobility and substantial modifications of individual work conditions.
Advice on specific situations of the worker (maternity / paternity, leave, temporary disability, measures to reconcile family and work life, etc.).
Preparation of business policies and internal protocols, as well as equality plans, training, etc.
Suspensions and terminations of individual labor relations, both based on objective and disciplinary causes.
Prevention of occupational hazards.
Advice on contracting or provision of services with third parties and temporary employment agencies.
Permanent labor update: information on the most relevant legislative and judicial news.

Litigious practice

The lawyers of the Labor team of OGMT ABOGADOS provide preventive advice that minimizes the risks of labor conflict. However, when the litigation arises and its extrajudicial resolution is not possible, our specialized professionals with extensive and proven experience intervene in the judicial defense of the interests of our clients.

The Labor Department offers, among others, the following services related to the litigious practice:

Defense of the interests of our clients in relation to minutes of liquidation of contributions to the Social Security or acts of labor infringement or any other administrative action in the workplace.
Defense of the interests of our clients before all instances of the judicial labor and litigation-administrative bodies, including any procedures until obtaining a final judgment (Courts, Superior Courts of Justice, National Court, Supreme Court, Constitutional Court).

LEGAL ADVICE IN THE FIELD OF LABOR RELATIONS OF A COLLECTIVE NATURE

We are experts in the proper management of relations with unitary and union representatives of workers as an essential element of strategy and personnel management.

We advise on a recurring basis in the configuration of collective labor relations in any sectoral, territorial, company or group of companies, in relation to the obligations derived from election processes to workers representatives, in collective bargaining situations of any type (sectoral collective agreements, agreements and agreements or agreements of companies or business groups, etc.), as well as in processes of collective modification of the working conditions of workers, and changes in the corporate legal structure and derived from commercial operations.