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LABOR
RELATIONS AND
LITIGATION

Successful companies invest in building
long-term labor relations. Sáez & Fernández, experts in labor strategy.

When contingency breaks trust, we rely on our highly-specialized labor litigation team.

The Labor Reform opens new scenarios for companies. We know the best labor conflict prevention practices and put them at the disposal of our clients.

Our Firm

We are experts in labor law legal assistance and strategy.

Our firm’s hallmark is defined by a joint team of attorneys combining experience in the public, private, and academic sectors. We specialize in labor relations and litigation. Ethics, diversity, and professional excellency make up our firm’s DNA.

Leading companies in the mining, telecommunications, transportation, and industry sectors, amongst others, have trusted our team and, altogether, we work on providing strategies to perfect labor relations within companies.

Practice Areas

Individual labor law

We provide assistance in each area of individual labor law. We offer legal counsel in the drafting of all types of documents; we elaborate Law Reports; we supply direct aid in dispute resolution as well as legal defense for all individual conflicts brought forth by either the application of labor legislation or within the context of the employment relation.

Collective labor law

We understand negotiation strategies in depth. We offer counsel and assistance at the collective bargaining table with the purpose of reaching satisfactory agreements for all involved parties. We supply support to companies’ labor relation teams regarding contingencies and processes of change, meanwhile bearing in mind the prevention of conflicts that may arise following the conclusion of negotiations.

Social security

We continuously assist our clients so they may regulate and oversee the employer’s proper compliance with legislation, as an entity legally bound by the Social Security System.

Prevention of risks

In terms of prevention of risks, work-related accidents, and occupational illness, our team is highly trained to face different scenarios, provide legal defense, and supply overall comprehensive assistance for companies, including risk evaluation through the analysis of the company’s current state of compliance with labor legislation.

Employment and training:

We train companies in matters of labor law and labor relations through comprehensive programs developed pursuant to each client’s needs.

Labor litigation

We are experts in procedural labor law. We provide our clients with legal defense both in labor lawsuits regarding direct liability, as well as in those that deal with labor outsourcing. Our team’s strengths in matters of labor litigation play a key role in providing our clients with first-rate legal advisory..

Administrative labor law

We possess in-depth knowledge regarding the functioning and regulation applicable to all Government bodies, which we put at our clients’ disposal.

Labor relations

The best strategy in preventing disputes is based on the effective involvement in labor relations through time. Our team is experienced in union relations and focuses in providing our clients with the necessary support within the diverse scenarios that collective labor relations may present.

Team

Felipe Sáez
PARTNER

Gabriela Montoya

Raúl Fernández

PARTNER

Eika Leiva

Pablo Fuenzalida

Gonzalo Díaz

Acknowledgements

Sáez & Fernández Abogados has been acknowledged by the main international legal rankings that have investigated the practice of labor law in our country in depth. The results are based on the opinions of our clients and our peers, and therefore express the quality of the advice we provide and the satisfaction with our personalized service.

The British directory Legal 500 has ranked Sáez & Fernández Abogados as one of the country's leading law firms in the area of Labor & Employment for three years running. We attained our best position ever in the latest edition after ranking in Tier 2, with two of our partners - Felipe Sáez and Raul Fernández - highlighted in the Leading Individuals category.

The 2022 edition of Chambers and Partners included our partner Felipe Sáez among the best labor lawyers in the country, with comments from clients that highlight his skills in dealing with highly complex collective bargaining processes.

The French directory Leaders League also highlighted our team by ranking our firm in the “Highly Recommended” category in the most recent edition of its investigation (2021).

The Legal 500 - The Clients Guide to Law Firms

Publications

Actualidad Laboral

by Raúl Fernández

Transmissibility of the moral damage of the deceased worker to his heirs

498/5000 In December 2016 the Supreme Court ordered a company to pay $ 100 million to the wife and children of a deceased worker in the context of an occupational accident. The ruling sets a precedent for Chilean jurisprudence which, until now, mostly held that the moral damage suffered by a deceased worker was intransmissible. This scenario opens the way for other heirs to sue the employers for moral reparation for the loss of their relatives.

News

by Comunicaciones Sáez & Fernández

FELIPE SÁEZ ANALYZED THE CHALLENGES OF THE LABOR REFORM IN SOFOFA ANNUAL GREMIOS MEETING

Sáez & Fernández's partner warned how the gaps in the reform are impacting the decisions of hiring new workers in companies that, having existing collective agreements, did not negotiate the extension of benefits because the old law did not contemplate it. The firms must work to develop collaborative working relationships with a long-term perspective, said the expert at the meeting that convened more than 60 trade union leaders in the country