Labour & Employment

About

Provided by D'Empaire

D’Empaire continuously assists clients to reduce litigation risk and ensure legal compliance under employment law. 

D’Empaire is considered one of the leading Venezuelan law firms in collective contract negotiations and conflict management with labor unions, as well as in planning for and dealing with work stoppages.  We have extensive experience assisting multinational and Venezuelan companies in their labor disputes.

We advise our clients on workers’ compensation and benefit plans, including executive pay.  We also have extensive experience in employments contracts terminations and negotiation of settlement agreements.

D´Empaire has substantial litigation experience before trial courts, courts of appeals and the Supreme Court on the full range of labor and employment law matters, including wrongful termination, individual employment contracts, and workplace accident litigation.

We also assist our clients in the conduction of labor and employment audits to identify potential sources of labor liabilities as well as supply chain audits to ensure our clients subcontractor´s compliance with statutory and corporate labor standards. 

Together with the corporate team, our attorneys in the labor and employment area have assisted clients in connection with due-diligence reviews and have worked extensively on restructurings and other labor issues in connection with M&A, business and financing transactions.