Labor & Employment

Our Labour & Employment practice area offers services in connection with individual Labor laws and Collective and Social Security laws. We provide advice on domestic and foreign recruitment, individual and collective employment relations management, and the application of Bolivian labor policies.

In addition to regular advice in day-to-day employment relationships, our labor team also advises clients in disciplinary investigations and procedures, in negotiations for terminations of employment contracts, termination of employment contracts, massive layoffs, voluntary retirement plans, restructuring processes, labor harassment cases, and in the design and implementation of tax-efficient benefit plans.

Our services include:

• Drafting and negotiating senior executive and individual employment contracts
• Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with unions
• Redundancy procedures and temporary layoffs and working time reductions, substantial modifications of working conditions, and updating of collective bargaining agreements
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Design and implementation of remuneration schemes, pension plans, and supplementary benefits
• Design and implementation of internal employee manuals and health and safety regulations
• Occupational hazards prevention
• Advice on the employment law implications of commercial transactions
• Litigation before the labor administration and Courts