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The law firm ‘Irun Estudio Juridico Asesoria Laboral De Empresas’ has a prestigious track record of more than 20 years’ of expertise in labor law serving both national and international professional companies who come with the confidence of receiving a service of quality, excellence and efficiency.

Within its expansion plans, during 2012 the law firm Irun & Villamayor was established as legal labor counsel for corporations, as the result of the incorporation of legal professionals into the labor field.

Irun & Villamayor is a law firm exclusively specialized in the field of labor counseling to companies. There are currently 17 lawyers working for the firm, with extensive professional training specifically in labor law (individual and collective), administrative labor law, social security law, and the solution of judicial labor disputes.

Preventive counseling: Irun & Villamayor assists clients in all aspects of traditional labor issues, employment litigation, workplace safety, employee benefits and other areas. It offers preventive counseling in labor law through ongoing consultation, attention to individual and collective actions, and conflicts and claims in administrative proceedings.

The firm provides efficient, client-focused service to its clients. Its alternatives and proposals aim to minimize risks and costs, prevent bad results, and establish practical solutions regarding labor law. It also has a system of internal audits for companies in order to assess contingencies, caring about and preserving the matters that clients trust.

Concerning individual labor law, Irun & Villamayor provides advice on standard contract terms of employment, apprenticeship and trainees; legal regulation of working hours and breaks, shifts and different ways of organizing working time; remuneration and non-wage benefits; substantial change in working conditions, the exercise of ‘ius variandi‘; time, geographical and occupational mobility for staff; legal aspects of the special employment relationship of senior executives or those subject to special rules; ongoing adaptation of working conditions; legal aspects of concerted or unilateral suspensions, termination of employment contract by reason of force majeure or lack of work beyond the employer’s control; and occupational health, hygiene and safety conditions.

In terms of collective labor law, the firm is a leader in negotiating new collective agreements and resolving collective actions, to which effect it is necessary to have experience and close relationships with stakeholders, both employers and unions. The firm has participated in several collective bargaining agreements, company agreements and concerted negotiation strategies.

Legal representation and litigation: labor Irun & Villamayor assists clients in all aspects of employment disputes, labor law and social security. It offers reliable legal representation in all judicial instances. The employment and labor lawyers at Irun & Villamayor litigate several lawsuits involving employment disputes.

The firm’s labor attorneys also represent clients in appeals at the Labor Courts, before the Supreme Court, summary proceedings before the Ministry of Labor and before the Social Security Institute.

Services include assessment which allows the firm to analyze the situation of conflict or problem raised under the labor law, in conjunction with its integrated social security department. In all matters, the firm focuses on alternative solutions.