Quintero y Quintero Asesores

Quintero y Quintero Asesores is an advisory and labor consultancy firm with operations in Colombia and offices in Bogota, Medellin and Barranquilla, offering an extensive portfolio of professional services, all related to corporate labor and employment matters. The firm comprises 20 attorneys specialized in labor law, an industrial engineer and an economist, all with extensive field experience.

What differentiates Quintero and Quintero from other firms is our experience and expertise in collective bargaining, our strategy is made up of prevention, planning and application of it. Our  partners have more than 1000 collective barraging tables with different types of unions representing the most important multinational and national companies in Colombia and other Latin American countries. Achieving reduction of extra-legal benefits, freezing of extra-legal benefits, substitution of extra-legal benefits through the negotiation process applying the strategy and experience in them. Our main strength is the management of Trade Unions in the private and public sectors.

All the energy of the firm is concentrated in advising globally only private companies and public entities. Our lawyers are specialized in labor matters, both individual and collective practices. The structure of the collective labor strategy of our clients is developed by a interdisciplinary group of lawyers.

In the law suits area we have a 75% percent effectiveness, which makes us one of the firms with the best index in the country and regarding the constitutional rights defense mechanism, we have an effectiveness percentage of 85% percent effectiveness.

Our recognition in labor relations, collective bargaining and management of Trade Unions in the private and public sectors has led several companies such as PepsiCo Alimentos, Tucker Energy, Segurex, Promigas ESP, PROMISOL, Aguas de la Sabana de Bogota, Aguas de Pereira, Laguna Encantada, Comfenalco Antioquia, Cobres de Colombia, Centro Colombo Americano, Independence Drilling, Club El Rancho, Banco W, CENTELSA, Ecopetrol, Foneca and Ingenio Carmelita to request our services to develop our business strategy in the last twelve months.

On the other hand, Quintero y Quintero recently reopened the area of migratory law, and  simultaneously working on the independent process of division and opening of the area of tax law, segregating process and requirements of Risk Management and Parafiscal Unit (UGPP) with the objective of diversifying the portfolio of services of the firm.

At the same time, continuing the objective of segregating, we offer an extended experience in labor advisory to public entities, by opening a new area of administrative laboral services, for all the concerning public entities in regulatory matters regarding their public servers, public employees, and official workers.

Services
Advisory and labor consulting: Quintero y Quintero Asesores is known for providing counsel in the area of labor and employment law exclusively to companies, providing support to the presidency, general management, administrative and financial departments, and human resources in all matters relating to labor and employment relationships. Quintero y Quintero is a specialist in designing compensation structures, aligned with current legislation, for new companies or for those seeking to optimize personnel disbursements. Consequently, collective employment policies related to hiring, compensation or discharge of the personnel are designed, developed or reoriented. Clients are advised on the preparation, suspension or termination of employment contracts.

Collective negotiations: the firm’s principal partners, Ivan Quintero Martinez and Saida Quintero Martinez, have furthered more than six hundred collective bargaining processes with the trade union organizations of diverse natures, sizes and complexities. They have also contributed in the creation or renewal of multiple collective bargaining agreements. Collective negotiations addressed in Peru and Ecuador are led by the firm’s principal partner.

Defense in labor lawsuits: the firm assumes the legal representation of the company in labor proceedings, both ordinary as well as special proceedings as trade union immunity, workplace harassment, and executory proceedings. It handles extraordinary cassation appeals before the labor chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice. The firm has a success rate above 78% in labor litigation (internal statistics). Companies are represented in labor arbitration proceedings before the Supreme Court of Justice in extraordinary appeals seeking annulment of an arbitration award.

Labor-related writs of protection: in response; supervision; rebuttal or objection; and control in constitutional court. The firm has a success rate surpassing 86% in handling labor-related writs of projections (Tutelas) (internal statistics).

Labor audits: Quintero y Quintero offers a specialized auditing service exclusively focused on labor and employment. This service includes a detailed review, verification and assessment of each and every labor- and employment-related area of the company such as: payroll, self-settlements, contracts, vacations, settlement of social benefits, policies, hiring requirements, etc.

Special projects: formalization of work relationships; reduction in personnel – strategy, facilitation and execution; corporate mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs from a labor perspective; corporate acquisition – labor implications; corporate closures, total or partial; business units, economic groups, controlling position – labor implications; homologation of extra-legal labor benefits among different companies; and pension commutation.

Proceedings before the Ministry of Labor: monitoring and control of arbitration tribunals; corporate defense in administrative investigations originating from complaints for alleged noncompliance with individual, collective or social security labour legislation; advisory and transacting of requests for total or partial corporate closures and suspension of activities; solicitations for authorization to terminate the contracts of sick or pregnant employees; solicitations to obtain overtime work authorization; response to citations filed by employees and/or former employees against the company; and handling of voluntary conciliations with employees and/or former employees of the company.

Proceedings before the U.G.P.P: Quintero y Quintero Asesores is an expert advisory firm on handling social security and parafiscal contributions requirements of the Special Administrative Unit of Pension Management and Parafiscal Contributions (UGPP), ancillary to the Ministry of Finance, for alleged inaccuracies or omissions. The firm counsels and guides the company in assessing the claim and pertinent information, drafting the document and legal recourses and acts on behalf of the company in order to clarify and expunge the payments and penalties up to the completion of the process.

Labor-related education and refreshers: the firm provides education and refreshers on legal labor and employment issues offered by duly qualified professionals through conferences, seminars, courses and workshops.