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Labor and Employment Law
Employer-side practice: prevent the liability before the hearing and defend with rigour once the claim arrives.
A company's labor cost is rarely in the payroll. It is in the routines nobody documented: working hours without reliable records, payments made off the books, poorly contracted outsourcing, terminations handled carelessly.
We act for employers in preventive advice and in litigation, from the first hearing through to appeals, including the appellate labor courts. The goal is to reduce the flow of new claims and to improve the outcome of those already filed.
What we handle in Labor and Employment Law
Choose a matter and see how we work, what you receive and the most common questions.
Preventive Labor Advisory
Review of contracts, working hours and contractors to reduce labor liability before it becomes a lawsuit.
See matterLabor Litigation
Answer, evidence, company representative and hearing: technical defense from the summons to the judgment.
See matterLabor Appeals
Ordinary appeal, review appeal and interlocutory appeals for companies, with deadline and bond control up to the TST.
See matterHow we work
Preventive labor audit
Review of contracts, working hours, time records, payments, outsourcing and health and safety, with a risk report ranked by likelihood and impact.
Defence in labor claims
Statements of defence, evidence, conduct of hearings and settlement strategy, with an assessment of the real cost of litigating against the cost of settling.
Appellate work
Ordinary appeals, appeals to the Superior Labor Court and related measures before the appellate labor courts, including issues with sector-wide significance for the client.
Employment contracts and internal policies
Employment contract templates, internal rules, remote work policies, hour banks, teleworking and rules on the use of company tools, aligned with the CLT (Brazilian Labor Code, Decree-Law No. 5,452/1943).
Collective bargaining and union relations
Support in collective agreements, negotiation meetings and responses to notices from unions and from the Ministry of Labor.
Terminations and restructurings
Planning of individual and collective dismissals, calculation of severance and conduct of the process to reduce the risk of later claims.
Why work with us
Employer focus
We act on the company's side, which means looking at the whole liability picture and at the underlying routines, not only at this week's case.
Fixing the cause, not only the claim
Every defence produces a practical recommendation on what to change in the operation so that the same claim does not return.
Presence in the appellate courts
We follow legal theories in the appellate courts and before the higher courts, including emerging topics such as work through digital platforms.
Frequently asked questions
How long does an employee have to file a labor claim in Brazil?
An employee has up to two years after the end of the contract to file a claim, and can seek amounts relating to the last five years of employment, under the Federal Constitution and the CLT (Brazilian Labor Code). That is why records of working hours and payments must be kept even after the employment ends.
Does hiring independent contractors create an employment relationship in Brazil?
It can, if in practice the work is personal, habitual, paid and subordinated. The label on the contract does not settle the question: Brazilian labor courts look at how the relationship actually worked day to day, based on evidence such as messages, schedules and targets.
Is it worth settling a labor claim in Brazil?
It depends on the risk in the case and on the full cost of seeing it through, including time, fees, monetary adjustment and expert evidence. The decision should be made by modelling scenarios, not by habit, because settling every claim automatically encourages new ones.
How can an employer reduce labor liabilities in Brazil?
It starts with auditing routines: reliable time records, contracts that match the real role, correctly recorded payments and well conducted terminations. Most adverse rulings come from gaps in documentary evidence rather than from bad faith.
Do you handle claims filed outside Pernambuco?
Yes. We act for companies facing claims in other Brazilian states and follow cases in the appellate courts, while the client keeps a single point of contact for the whole labor portfolio.
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Want to know the real size of your labor exposure in Brazil?
Talk to our team about a preventive audit and about managing your company's portfolio of labor claims.