Meliza Aliaga

Practice Areas

Meliza Aliaga is a senior associate of PPO and leader of the labour litigation practice within the Labour and Social Security team. Her extensive and deep professional experience focuses on sponsorship, defense, and strategic planning within judicial, constitutional, and administrative processes in labour matters and social security, in all its procedural instances, throughout the main axis and main cities of Bolivia, achieving completely successful and highly favorable results. In the last period, she has defended and sponsored hundreds of labour processes for several multinational and local companies.

Similarly, she has extensive experience in specialized advice on labour matters on all legal aspects of labour relations (hiring, remuneration, labour rights, negotiations, terminations, among others), prevention, resolution and contention of individual labour conflicts. and collective, including planning, organization and execution of strategies, defense in containment in labour restructuring processes to companies of different sectors, local and multinational successfully.

Before joining PPO, she gained significant experience in the public sector such as: i) La Paz Autonomous Municipal Government, ii) La Paz Departmental Prosecutor’s Office in the Anti-Corruption and Public Corruption Division, and iii) Labour Courts of the Departmental Tribunal of Justice of La Paz. Later she worked in the private sector at the law firm Pemintel Asesoramiento Laboural and Ferrere Abogados, specializing in procedural, labour and social security practices.

Meliza obtained her law degree at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in 2014, completing a diploma in Education Sciences and is currently completing a Master’s Degree in Labour Law and Labour Procedure.

Career

Meliza Aliaga has spent more than a decade in the industry, creating an impressive professional experience on several fields. She is a specialist in sponsorship, defence, and strategic planning within constitutional and administrative judicial processes in labour and social security matters, having defended and sponsored hundreds of labour processes in administrative and judicial channels in all its instances, along the main axis and main cities of Bolivia, achieving completely successful and highly favourable results for several multinational and local companies.

Similarly, she has solid experience in specialized advice on labour matters in all legal aspects of labour relations (hiring, remuneration, labour rights, negotiations, dismissals, among others), prevention, resolution, and contention of individual labour conflicts and collective, including planning, organization, strategy execution and contention in labour restructuring processes for companies from different sectors, local and multinational.

Before joining PPO, Meliza Aliaga gained significant experience in the public sector asm part of La Paz Autonomous Municipal Government, La Paz Departmental Prosecutor's Office in the Anti-Corruption and Public Corruption Division, and Labor Courts of the Departmental Court of Justice of Peace. Subsequently, she worked in the private sector at the law firm Pemintel Asesoramiento Laboral y Ferrere Abogados, specializing in procedural, labour and social security practices.

Professional Memberships

Colegio de Abogados de La Paz - ICALP

Languages Spoken

Spanish

Clients

Abbott laboratories – Pharmatech

Avon

Bureau veritas

Nestlé – fagal

WHO World health organization

Plan internacional

Huawei

Tecnofarma

Owen Illinois – LUX glass

Rolón poultry

Sofía poultry

Dufry

Belcorp – transbel

Petrex

National Oilwell

Acciona

Coral paints

La Paz tenement financial entity

Solur "chocolates para ti"

Fopeca

La llave

HP medical

Makiber

Promotora

Corteva – DOW

Fexpocruz

Repsol

Urbacruz

Alalay children´s shelter

Axs Bolivia

Work Highlights

Some of Meliza’s most renowned work include the PETREX defence in a highly complex labour process filed by a former manager who attempted to claim more than 3 million dollars, managing to avoid the freezing of all his bank accounts, the seizure of assets and the seizure of senior managers of the Company.

Another noteworthy case is the 100% success result for Repsol in a highly complex and delicate labour dispute filed by a former worker who claimed the payment of extra-legal bonuses. Likewise, the Glass-Lux case generated favourable and successful rulings in sponsorship in constitutional and judicial actions, with 0% contingency for the company, due to the fact that it was possible to avoid the execution of reinstatement of more than 160 former workers plus the payment of salaries earned by more of 3 years in exorbitant amounts, achieving rulings from the Plurinational Constitutional Court.

Both these cases later served as jurisprudential precedents at the national level for similar cases of reincorporation for other companies.

Meliza has also been involved in the defence of several enterprises in cases involving highly complex and delicate labour-related litigations that range from retroactive social benefits and fines to multiple simultaneous wage and social benefits related demands against corporations and companies like La Paz financial entity, Huawei, Corteva, Bureau Veritas, Rolón, Nestlé and, SOLUR.

Industry Sector Expertise

Non-Profit corporations

Infrastructure and Engineering

Mining

Financial Services

Industry and Manufacturing

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Bolivia

Experience

Labour litigation of all kinds and of high complexity, issues of labour advice and social security, labour restructuring.

Awards

Education