Conducting Layoffs Across China & Latin America: Brazil, Colombia & Mexico

Reductions in force rarely stay in one jurisdiction. When a restructuring touches China and Latin America at the same time, a single business decision has to be executed under four different legal regimes — each with its own notice periods, severance rules, consultation and notification duties, and level of union or employee-representative involvement.

In this on-demand webinar, Employment Law Alliance practitioners from China, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico set out what it actually takes to plan and carry out a layoff across these markets. Drawing on their experience guiding multinational employers through restructurings, the panel focuses on the practical issues that most often derail cross-border projects, and on how to sequence the process so that one jurisdiction's timetable does not put another at risk.

What the session covers

• The circumstances in which employers can lawfully make redundancies in each jurisdiction
• Whether employers must consider redeployment, alternative roles or shift adjustments before dismissing
• The process to follow before making redundancies, including notice, severance and compensation, and mediation or negotiation where required
• The role of unions and employee representatives, and how collective or group-dismissal rules change the timeline
• Documentation, timing and cross-border coordination when several jurisdictions are in scope at once
• Remedies available to employees if the employer breaches its obligations — and the exposure that follows

Who should watch: in-house counsel, HR and labour relations leaders, and global mobility and restructuring teams managing workforce reductions in China, Brazil, Colombia or Mexico — or planning a multi-jurisdiction programme that includes them.

This program is the third session in our Layoff Series.

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