Octavio Cantón Jaramillo

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment

Career

Octavio has practiced labor law from the beginning of his professional career.

He is an expert in advising on both individual and collective labor matters. He assists companies in the definition and implementation of their labor structure, labor reengineering processes, outsourcing relationships and commercial transactions, such as restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, hiring and termination of personnel, as well as in the negotiation of individual and collective bargaining agreements and the design, review and drafting of benefit and retirement plans.

Octavio has extensive experience in all matters related to labor law. He has advised national and foreign companies, both public and private, in all branches of industry, commerce and services, assisting them in complex transactions and resolution of individual and collective conflicts and litigation.

He has advised different non-governmental organizations, such as Sin Fronteras, UNICEF, Save the Children, and Unete. He has also participated as an expert on social rights for the Human Rights Committee in Mexico City and has worked as a trainer in indigenous communities, mainly in Chiapas, Mexico.

Octavio holds a Law Degree from Universidad Iberoamericana and a postgraduate degree from Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Spain) on Labor Relations, Employment and Social Protection in Globalization. Recently, he obtained the Labor Relations and Arbitration professional certificate from Cornell University.

His experience includes being a special advisor to the Mexican Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and a visiting professor in the Human & Social Rights and International Studies Programs at the University of Chicago. He, along with Professor Santiago Corcuera, founded the first human rights master´s program in Latin America at Universidad Iberoamericana.

He has been a professor of Labor Law at the undergraduate level and of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the Master’s Degree in Human Rights at Universidad Iberoamericana. Additionally, he has PhD studies in Fundamental Rights from Instituto de Derechos Humanos Bartolomé de las Casas, a program offered at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

He has collaborated with the Mexican Academy of Labor Procedural Law and the Latin American Academy of Labor Procedural Law.

Octavio was invited, as a labor law specialist, to participate in the collective work, Derechos Humanos en la Constitución: Comentarios de Jurisprudencia Constitucional e Interamericana, published by Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation.

He has published several articles on social law. He is the coordinator and co-author of the book, Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, Ensayos y Materiales, as well as the author of the book, Igualdad y Derechos.

Clients

Client Quotes:

"Octavio Cantón Jaramillo provides sensible solutions whilst looking out for the business interests of his clients."