Janine Guzman > DLA Piper Puerto Rico > San Juan, Puerto Rico > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Puerto Rico Offices
OCHOA BUILDING
500 CALLE DE LA TANCA, SUITE 401
SAN JUAN, PR 00901-1969
Puerto Rico
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Janine Guzman
Work Department
Employment; Data Protection, Privacy and Security; Consumer Goods, Food and Retail
Position
Partner
Career
With over 30 years of experience, Janine Guzmán has represented corporate clients in complex labor and employment matters including hiring, wage and hour, statutory licenses and employee benefits, performance, discipline and termination, business restructurings, reductions in force and relocations, drug testing programs, discrimination, sexual harassment, affirmative action, employee privacy, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, defamation, safety in the workplace and immigration. She has developed vast experience in the legal and regulatory aspects of both federal and local labor issues. Janine counsels small, medium and large national and international corporations regarding employment issues on an ongoing basis.
She advises a wide range of businesses covering a number of sectors, among them retail, wholesale, services, educational institutions, hospitality and leisure, communications and manufacturing. Her extensive experience includes wrongful discharges; employment discrimination proceedings at the federal, state and local levels; defending claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Puerto Rico wage-and-hour laws; and representation before the Unemployment Bureau, Industrial Commission, Anti-Discrimination Unit, the EEOC, OSHA, Arbitration and Conciliation Bureau and the National Labor Relations Board.
Janine works closely with the firm’s Corporate group in conducting due diligences and assisting in the disclosures of employee and labor matters in business mergers and acquisitions, on both the buy and sell sides, as well as in stock or asset purchase deals. In recent years, she has participated in important transactions involving financial institutions, communication companies and medical and hospital supply distributors.
Janine has served as a lecturer in employment law seminars for different organizations, including the Puerto Rico Association for Labor Relations Practitioners, the Society for Human Resources Management and Council of Education in Management.
Memberships
Society for Human Resources Management; Association of Labor Relations Practitioners
Education
J.D., Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Lawyer Rankings
Puerto Rico > Labour and employment
(Leading individuals)The labour and employment team at DLA Piper Puerto Rico
assists national and multinational corporates across such sectors as pharmaceuticals, energy, manufacturing, software and financial services on day-to-day matters and in complex litigation. Janine Guzman heads the team, bringing experience to matters related to wages and hours, statutory licences, employee benefits, discipline and termination, business restructurings, reductions in force and relocations, discrimination, employee privacy, confidentiality, restrictive covenants, and immigration. Another key figure is of counsel Mariana Muñiz-Lara, who represents public and private entities before state and federal first instance and appellate courts, as well as before administrative agencies and arbitral forums.