Natalia Merino Moreno joined Ogletree Deakins in May 2015 as a law clerk. Previously, she worked for a year in the human resources area of one of Costco’s Wholesale warehouses in Mexico (2015). Natalia is fluent in Spanish and English.
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Advises companies in all matters related to their work relationships with their employees
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Assists companies on the preparation and revision of all kind of labor agreements, internal work regulations, work policies and codes of conduct
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Provides legal advice on regards day-to-day employment matters
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Assists and advises companies in order to ensure compliance with Mexican Official Standards (Normas Oficiales Mexicanas or NOMs for its acronym in Spanish) related to employment relations and safety and health in the workplace
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Assists and advises companies on employment termination processes, from determining appropriate course of action, through calculating estimated amounts for severance and preparing required documents and up to the executions and formalization of said processes
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Assists and advises companies on regards alimony claims
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Has experience on litigation processes before the Federal and Local Labor Courts
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Has experience on Amparo appeals filed before Circuit Collegiate Courts, District Courts and Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice
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Has experience on obtaining companies corresponding registries before different authorities such as Mexico’s Social Security Institute, Institute for the National Fund for Employee Consumption, Local Finance Ministries for the payment of payroll taxes
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Has participated in due diligence processes in order to determine if companies comply with Labor Law regulations
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Has experience on labor matters, such as collective bargaining agreements’ negotiation, preparation, annual and biannual renewals
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Has assisted companies on regards Administrative Procedures before the Labor Secretariat, such as ordinary and extraordinary inspections
