Labor

We offer support in the opening and establishment of domestic and multinational business concerns throughout Mexico, identifying the main labor and social security obligations applicable based on the company’s business or activity. We participate in the design of labor strategies in the case of mergers, acquisitions, sale of the business, windup, employee transfers and the operating aspects of the company.

We are experienced in the negotiation and renewal of collective bargaining agreements, carefully managing union dealings.

We conduct labor compliance audits with respect to the application of preventive or corrective measures.

We aid in the preparation and review of individual labor agreements of all kinds, as well as the appropriate regulation and payment of employee benefit plans, administrative controls such as receipts, time reports and overtime. We assist companies to develop employee benefit policies, savings funds, private pension plans and complementary arrangements under the tax laws, employee stock option programs, and sales commissions or bonuses.

We have been actively involved in the creation and registration of mandatory mixed commissions (training, safety and hygiene, profit sharing and internal workplace regulations, among others).

We assist in the study and analysis of severance processes with respect to individual and collective labor agreements.

We assess the labor implications of service agreements between our clients and the individuals and companies they hire, as well as the proper implementation of workplace policies they have in place.

We provide counsel in such areas as profit sharing, employer substitution, labor mediation, benefits, confidentiality agreements, etc., attending to inspections conducted by the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare at the federal and state level.