Labor & Employment

The Firm represents local and international clients in all employment matters, such as labor disputes, compliance with statutory and regulatory standards, and employee benefits. This includes counseling services resolving personnel problems and managing pre-litigation issues, undertaking labor audits of company policies, reviewing employment-based contracts and agreements, and handling labor cases in all stages before the regulatory agencies up to the Supreme Court. In a number of situations, the Firm has successfully guided clients in amicably resolving pre-litigation disputes bearing significant social and financial impact, addressing contentious, union-related, and job security issues arising from mergers, consolidations, and restructuring of operations in multi-union and multi-bargaining enterprises.

The Firm represents clients in compulsory and voluntary arbitration as well as in adversarial and non-adversarial labor proceedings before labor agencies and the courts.; handles conflicts between labor and management, including strike disputes, mass action controversies, unfair labor practice cases and terminations of employment, as part of the employee disciplinary process and as a direct result of corporate restructuring, dissolutions and plant closures; and assists clients in collective bargaining negotiations and manpower reorganizations involving strategic retrenchment, down-sizing and right-sizing.

Part of its services includes labor audits, due diligence, and the preparation and review of company policies, personnel manuals, and rules and regulations, and provides lectures and seminars on employment law and labor relations to senior executives and personnel managers in top corporations.

Range of employment services:

• Administrative Investigation / Disciplinary Action and Termination
• Certification Election Proceedings
• Collective Bargaining
• Employee Benefits and Stock Option Plans
• Employee Transfer
• Employment Due Diligence/Compliance Check
• Investigation on Executive Misconduct
• Job Contracting
• Labor Litigation
• Labor Relations
• Labor Standards
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Overseas Employment
• Social Welfare and Regulatory Compliance
• Hiring of remote workers
• Hiring of expatriate employees