Munita & Olavarría

Senior Partners: Enrique Munita, Cristián Olavarría
Partners: Paola Casorzo, Marcela Salazar
Number of partners: 4
Number of other lawyers: 15

Contacts 

Labour & Employment: Enrique Munita, Cristián Olavarría, Paola Casorzo, Marcela Salazar

Firm Overview:
Munita & Olavarría – Ius Laboris Chile, is a law firm specialising in labour and employment law. The team takes pride in their deep knowledge and continuous communication with clients, combined with the quality of their lawyers, which strengthens their commitment to providing consistently high-quality service.

Additionally, the firm's members offer legal counselling free of charge to non-profit institutions, and play a key role in discussions on new employment regulations. They also regularly conduct lectures and seminars to update clients on legal changes and their implications.

Munita & Olavarría offers clients the assurance that their labour and employment issues are handled by a fully committed team that pays attention to every detail and keeps them informed, while generating value through improved industrial and human relations.

Since its founding, Munita & Olavarría has been part of Ius Laboris, an international alliance of over 1,500 specialist HR lawyers in 59 countries. This membership provides clients access to top local HR law experts as part of a global team with 20% more employment lawyers ranked by Chambers than any other employment practice.

Clients range from household names to multinational companies in sectors such as airlines, energy, utilities, retail, transportation, technology, pharmaceuticals, banking, mining, consulting, healthcare and logistics.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Labour & Employment: 100%

Labour & Employment:
Labour litigation, developing strategies to address the labour disputes. Internal work, health and safety regulations, and internal policies. Collective agreements, collective bargaining processes assistance and strike support. Labour contracts and terminations, employee benefits. Support the workplace and sexual investigations processes, in disciplinary proceedings, fringe benefits, service provision agreements, personal supply contracts, due diligence, and audits. Corporate restructuring. Mediation and settlement procedures before the Labour Authority. Immigration and visas. Pensions and social security. Wages and benefits taxation. Health and safety at the workplace.

International Work:
Munita & Olavarría works with major international clients that have operations in Chile or are impacted by Chilean legislation.

As part of the Ius Laboris alliance, we maintain constant interaction with labour law firms in over 50 countries, collaborating and developing international projects. Through this alliance, we have commercial relationships with the most prestigious labour law firms in Latin America, Europe, and around the world. In countries where the alliance does not have a member firm, we maintain "best friend" relationships with local expert labour law firms.

Languages:
English, Spanish.

Clients:
The labour and employment practice is referred to a wide range of industries, such as financial institutions, airlines, chemical, transportation companies, retail companies and others: Latam Airlines, Banco Santander, Banco BCI, Embotelladora Andina, BHP, Abbott, KPMG, Boehringer Ingelheim, Globalvia, Cisco, Accenture, Fresenius Medical Care, Metro, Infosys, General Motors, Natura, Michelin, Scotiabank, IBM, Banco de Chile, Banco Consorcio, Uber and DHL, among others.