Practice area
We advise employers on the full range of workforce matters in Bolivia, from day-to-day management to transactions, reorganisations, and sensitive disputes. Our practice covers employment terms, compensation, collective relations, social security, workplace investigations, terminations, compliance, and litigation.
Overview
Our Labour & Employment practice area offers services in connection with individual labour 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 labour policies.
In addition to regular advice on day-to-day employment relationships, our labour team advises clients in disciplinary investigations and procedures, in negotiations for the termination of employment contracts, terminations, mass layoffs, voluntary retirement plans, restructuring processes, labour harassment cases, and in the design and implementation of tax-efficient benefit plans.
Drafting and negotiating senior executive and individual employment contracts
Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with unions
Redundancy procedures, 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 hazard prevention
Advice on the employment law implications of commercial transactions
Litigation before the labour administration and the courts
Partner. Heads the Mining and Environmental Law departments. Over thirty years advising the largest foreign investors in Bolivia.
Partner. Labour law and social security, agribusiness and real estate, from Santa Cruz.
Associate, Santa Cruz. Labour law and social security since 2006.
21 July 2026
The decree closes the list of deductions that may be applied to public sector salaries. Anything outside the enumerated categories now requires express legal basis or documented individual consent.
16 January 2026
How the emergency framework was amended under pressure, and what survived the revision.
6 January 2026
A new minimum wage and a shift toward free wage negotiation — with immediate payroll consequences.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba
