Practice Areas

Labor
Involves permanent assistance and counsel in all the legal and regulative matters pertaining to the labor law in Chile. This assistance includes the preparation of individual work contracts, both normal and specialized, as well as the structuring of severances and compensations. It also includes maintaining the client updated on the legal changes that take place in this area, the preparation of work contracts for foreign personnel and advice on provisional effects.

Cruz&Cía.’s services also embraces advice to companies on negotiations and transactions with unions and other worker organizations and assistance in strikes and other similar conflicts. Advice in collective negotiation is included and the representation both of companies and individuals in claims before the National Labor Relations Board (Dirección del Trabajo) and the courts of law in all its instances.