Labor

The Firm's Labor Department has extensive practice in the area of employment and industrial relations. It is headed by Caesar J. Poblador, and enjoys active support of the senior lawyers, namely, Rio Sesinando E. Venturanza, Hosanna T. Ayson, and Reno R. Gonzales, Jr., all of whom closely supervise and monitor the actual work performed by assistant lawyers, namely Katherine C. Jambaro, Sherwin T. de Peralta and Jonna O. Guiang. The Labor Department provides clients with all-around legal services, from preparing and reviewing employment contracts, manuals of company rules and regulations, and consultancy agreements and giving advice on problematic issues, such as retrenchment and deadlocks in collective bargaining, as well as those arising from mergers and dissolution of companies. The department also assists clients in undertaking company-level procedures involving disciplinary action and the company's grievance procedures. When company proceedings are questioned before the National Labor Relation Commission, the department handles the resulting litigation which ranges from such issues as suspension and dismissal of employees, to strikes and lockouts.