Mary Carmen Fuertes Abascal

Practice Areas

Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and Share Incentives

Investigations, White Collar, and Fraud

Pensions

Employment

Our legal work in Latin America

Career

Mary Carmen Fuertes has extensive experience in labor and social security matters with a focus on labor consulting since joining Hogan Lovells (formerly Barrera, Siqueiros and Torres Landa) in September 2011.

Mary Carmen coordinates the labor practice and advise a large number of clients in their day-to-day labor matters, whether to start operations, carry out restructurings, implement or modify benefits and incentives, implement policies, codes of conduct and internal regulations, closing facilities, transferring employees, legal compliance in labor and social security issues and much more.

She has coordinated and participated in various labor audits, coordinated projects in Latin America, advised clients in relation to labor inspections, regularizations, labor investigations, hiring and terminations with executives, reorganizations related to subcontracting, specialized services, among others.

She is co-author of various publications on labor matters including the Mexico chapter of International Employment Law, the special edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business in relation to “Restrictive Clauses at the end of labor relations” in Mexico and the edition about “Eliminating Restrictions to Increase Gender Equity” from Women, Business and the Law, as well as other similar publications specialized in labor issues.

Before joining Hogan Lovells, Mary Carmen worked as an associate and intern at a Latin American full service firm for around five years.

Professional Memberships

President, Alumni of the Faculty of Law, Universidad Anahuac, 2006-2007

Member, CIMA Human Leadership Program, Universidad Anahuac, 2004-2008

Publications

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/repse-renewal-is-coming-up

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/minimum-wage-increase-of-20-in-mexico-by-2024

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/the-mexico-supreme-court-issues-a-criterion-regarding-the-2021-subcontracting-reform-and-its-application

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/the-mexican-official-standard-regarding-remote-work-home-office-nom-037-stps-2023-is-published

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/legislative-initiative-in-mexico-to-modify-working-hours-to-40-hours-per-week

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/why-mexico-is-attracting-foreign-investors-considering-nearshoring-in-the-americas

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/nearshoring-an-opportunity-for-companies-in-mexico

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/new-national-guidelines-for-the-continuity-of-economic-activities-due-to-covid-19

https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/minimum-general-wage-in-mexico-will-increase-in-2022

Experience

Prepare labor documentation for compliance and strengthening of the employer's policies and guidelines.

Homologation of benefits and transfer of employees.

Restructure of companies within the group.

Industry Sector Expertise

Automotive and Mobility

Consumer

Financial Institutions

Insurance

Technology and Telecoms

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Education

Awards