Inês Albuquerque e Castro

Employment, Benefits and Pensions

Inês Albuquerque e Castro joined FCB in 2015 and became a Partner in 2017, where she coordinates the Employment, Benefits and Pensions Department.

Inês has over 20 years of experience in the employment and social security area, advising the legal departments and/or the HR departments of several domestic and international companies from different sectors, on a regular basis.

Her practice predominantly consists in participating in the labour law issues that arise in collective recruitment processes, restructuring, collective dismissals, transfers of undertakings and other forms of business reorganization. She also advocates for her corporate clients in litigation processes for several labour matters and assists and defends such clients in disciplinary and misdemeanour proceedings against labour authorities.

She was involved in the preparation, drafting and publication of the 2003 Labour Code. She is a regular speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops about Labour Law.

2008 | CEDIPRE Institute at Coimbra University Law School | Post-Graduation Course in Public Law and Employment

2001 | Labour Law Institute at Lisbon University Law School | Post-Graduation Course in Labour Law

2001 | Economic and European Criminal Law Institute at Coimbra University Law School | Post-Graduation Course in European Criminal Law

1993-1998 | Lisbon University Law School | Degree in Law