• Preventive and corrective advisory on labor issues (including the issue of legal opinions and assistance throughout different procedural stages, where necessary).
• Diagnostics on labor topics.
• Advisory in the implementation of the “Public Administration Salaries Act”, the “Framework Public Employment Act” and other applicable regulations for the Public Sector.
• Creation and/or update of internal regulations and different labor policies.
• Collective bargaining / collective agreements (including the analysis and previous steps to the negotiation, assessment and proposal of regulations, assistance at the bargaining table or direct involvement as part of the team of employer’s delegates, counseling during the post-bargaining stages).
• Analysis of compensation schemes.
• Addressing collective labor disputes (strikes and others).
• Addressing and/or counseling in penalty procedures, including mobbing procedures.
• Addressing judicial proceedings.
• Implementation of telework (regulations, instruments and others).
• Review of work shifts and work schedules.
• Development and coordination of internal restructuring processes.
• Support to companies concerning trade union-related topics.
• Assisting companies in administrative procedures before the Costa Rican Social Security Administration.

• Detection and reporting of business opportunities.
• Assessment of the conditions established in bidding tenders.
• Drafting and submission of bidding clarification enquiries.
• Drafting of notary documents and contracts (legal status and incumbency certificates, signature authentication, several certifications, etc).
• Drafting of consortium agreements, subcontracts, permanent seasonal employment agreements for particular procurement processes.
• Drafting and assistance during the submission of bidding offers.

• Addressing remedies of opposition, reversal and/or appeal before the Administration or before the Office of the General Comptroller of the Republic.
• Defending clients in connection with favorable awarding acts at hearings with the Administration.

• Addressing judicial contentious-administrative processes.
• Contract termination and rescission.
• Application of fines or penalty clauses.
• Disqualification and warning penalization procedures.
• Enforcement of participation or performance guarantees.
• Claims for the collection of interests during contract performance.
• Claims for compensation in the event of contract amendments or suspensions.
• Assistance for the return of participation or performance guarantees.

• The ABC of labor law.
• Labor Law refreshment course.
• Employment and non-employment agreements.
• Good practices concerning social security and occupational risk matters (CCSS and INS)
• Employer powers.
• Discrimination, sexual harassment and mobbing.
• Base salary and pluses: analysis of the compensation scheme in the light of Act 9635: “Strengthening of Public Finances”.
• Framework Public Employment Act.
• Collective bargaining: aspects to be considered when negotiating collective conventions for the public sector.
• Types of disciplinary procedures and where should be applied.
• Permits and leaves of absence: implications for both workers and employers.

We provide in-house training on labor matters, based on the requirements of each institution and its specific needs.

The foregoing will be useful in case of being awarded through the corresponding public procurement mechanisms.

This type of training may be given at the work centers of the institution, hotels or at the offices of BDS Asesores, for groups of less than 40 people.

Some of the topics to be covered may include:

• Service outsourcing.
• The ABC of labor law in mixed employment relationships.
• Exercise of disciplinary power.

*All topics for open training sessions may be given under the in house modality, and may be adjusted to address the specific needs of the client.