Labour & Employment
Latin America Guide 2025 : Peru
Band 5
About
Provided by Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados
Our Labour & Employment practice offers comprehensive legal services to clients across various domains, ensuring compliance with labour regulations and providing expert guidance in workplace matters. In the realm of Labour Law, we advise clients on individual and collective labour rights, union matters, collective bargaining, and provide guidance on hiring processes and terminations. We also devise strategies for navigating labour disputes and regulatory inspections.
In the field of Occupational Health and Safety, we assist companies in implementing safety and health systems, conduct audits, and ensure compliance with labour safety regulations. We help establish safety committees and develop annual health and safety programs. We serve clients from different indutries such us telecommunications, retail, automotive, agroindustrial, food, beverage and more.
"Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados provides a close client service. Their advice is detailed, they quickly meet the requested mandates and they are up to date in market trends and regulations."
Chambers Review
Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados is a dedicated boutique with longstanding experience advising on contentious mandates, as well as offering labour advice in matters related to inspections, labour audits and employee terminations. The firm's clients are frequently from the telecommunications, automotive and food and beverage industries. Cementos Pacasmayois a new addition to their client roster.
Work Highlights
- Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados successfully annulled a non-compliance fine imposed on Intercorp by Peru's labour authority, SUNAFIL.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Experience in companies from different industries and of different sizes allows Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados to know the implications of each situation. The team is always ready to help us."
"Experience in companies from different industries and of different sizes allows Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados to know the implications of each situation. The team is always ready to help us."
Notable Practitioners
Respected partner and head of department Jorge Luis Acevedo Mercado has an established presence in the labour and employment area. He regularly assists clients from a range of areas, such as mining and telecommunication.
"Jorge Luis Acevedo Mercado is a strong professional with experience in the labour field. His advice is always timely and comprehensive, and facilitates novel solutions to complex problems."
Ranked Lawyers at
Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados
Peru
Members
Provided by Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados
Carla Benedetti
Head of Department
Dominick Vera
Franklin Altamirano
Head of Department
Karla Zuta
María Eugenia Tamariz
Natalia Peña
Vanessa Verano
Industries
Provided by Benites Vargas & Ugaz Abogados
Agroindustrial
Automotive
Food & beverage
Mining
Retail
Telecommunications