Partner in Demarest’s Labor and Employment practice area, Stella Castro holds a post-graduate degree in Business Law with focus in Labor Law from FGV and a Bachelor of Laws from UERJ. She concentrates her practice in highly complex individual and collective labor litigation. Among her main clients are companies in the banking, mining, construction, energy, technology and food sectors. She is recognized as one of the most renowned lawyers in Brazil by legal publication “Análise Advocacia”.
- Assisted a multinational company from the mining sector in public-interest civil actions filed by the Labor Prosecution Office seeking to impose liability for a dam failure in the city of Minas Gerais. Amount involved: BRL 1.6 million.
- Represented a multinational company from the food sector in public-interest civil actions filed by the Labor Prosecution Office to discuss the possibility of collective dismissal without prior negotiation with the competent union. Amount involved: BRL 50 million.
- Assisted a company from the banking sector in public-interest civil actions filed by unions involving nullity of compensatory time and payment of overtime to all of the company’s employees.
- Represented a major company from the banking sector in a public-interest civil action filed by the Labor Prosecution Office involving outsourcing matters. Amount involved: BRL 500 million.
- Represented a company from the banking sector in a public-interest civil action filed by the Labor Prosecution Office seeking to impose liability for psychosocial injury.
- Post-graduate degree in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007)
- Bachelor of Laws from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004)
- Portuguese and English
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