- Area
- Labor
Finocchio & Ustra’s labor area is a reference in strategic advisory and litigation legal assistance, focused on the challenges of the corporate world. We value the interface between litigation and advisory as a way to catalyze opportunities and improve labor routines and practices, to facilitate the development of our clients’ businesses, with proximity, agility, availability, and objectivity.
We work with judicial and administrative litigation cases in a planned, customized way, and focused on results and data structuring.
In the advisory sphere, we provide clients with assertive legal opinions, effective legal solutions, and alternatives that minimize or mitigate the risk of contingency in the labor field, based on corrective or preventive propositions.
We have vast experience in collective bargaining and conducting collective processes, also working in corporate transactions (M&A) assessing labor liabilities. Compliance in the labor field prioritizes multidisciplinary action, ensuring differentiated results.
Our professionals are dedicated to each client, ensuring mastery of the respective realities and delivering the best results.
Among the main areas of activity, the following stand out:
- Legal opinions (labor and social security)
- Labor Mapping (HR, Payroll and Occupational Health and Safety SST routines)
- Elaboration and Review of internal regulations and policies (remuneration, awards, benefits), including the adaptation of foreign documents to the Brazilian legal system
- Hiring foreigners (expatriates and repatriates)
- Labor Management/Labor Compliance Committee
- Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Medicine Committee
- In-Company Lectures
- Union assistance
- Adequacy of HR routines and procedures to the General Data Protection Law (LGPD).
- Strategic judicial and administrative litigation
- Litigation of repetitive thesis
- Defense in proceedings instituted by the Public Ministry of Labor and demands arising from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security
- Liability reduction programs / Labor provision review
- Root Cause Mapping/Custom Management Reports
- Legal audits/Advisory and support in M&A operations and other interdisciplinary work
Partners and Area Coordinators
Partner | VERIDIANA POLICE
HEAD | NEVILLE DE OLIVEIRA LOPES
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