Employment and social security
Hiring, internal rules, terminations, collective bargaining and UGPP audits.
We advise employers across the whole employment relationship: from designing the hiring structure to termination and the claims that follow. We work under the Labor Code (Código Sustantivo del Trabajo) and the social-security rules, and we follow closely the changes introduced by the labor reform (Law 2466 of 2025) and the pension reform (Law 2381 of 2024).
We support the daily work of human resources: employment agreements, internal work rules, remote and home-office policies, working hours, compensation and benefits, and the occupational health and safety management system. We prepare disciplinary proceedings and terminations so that they withstand judicial review.
We represent companies before the Ministry of Labor, in audits by the UGPP (the social-security contributions authority), in collective bargaining with unions and in ordinary labor proceedings.
What we do
- Fixed-term, indefinite-term and project-based employment agreements, apprenticeship agreements and hiring of foreign nationals.
- Engagement of independent contractors and temporary staffing agencies, with analysis of the risk of unlawful outsourcing.
- Internal work rules and policies on workplace harassment (Law 1010 of 2006), the right to disconnect and remote work.
- Compensation structures: all-inclusive salary, non-salary payments, bonuses and benefits.
- Disciplinary proceedings and terminations with and without cause, including employees with enhanced job protection.
- Collective dismissals and closures of operations with authorization from the Ministry of Labor.
- Negotiation of union demands, collective bargaining agreements and non-union collective pacts, and management of strikes.
- Defense in UGPP audits and in inspections and investigations by the Ministry of Labor.
- Employer substitution and employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.
- Representation in ordinary labor proceedings and constitutional injunction (tutela) actions.
Questions we answer
- Can I dismiss an employee who is on medical leave or pregnant?
- Which payments can I exclude from the social-security contribution base without the UGPP charging me later?
- Can my independent contractors claim they are employees?
- How do I reduce headcount without triggering a collective dismissal?
- Am I required to bargain with a union that was just formed by a handful of employees?
- What does the labor reform change for my company in surcharges, working hours and fixed-term contracts?
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