Santiago Pérez del Castillo

Born on October 2nd, 1950 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Practice areas

Legal advice on Labour and Social Security Law matters.

Member of arbitration tribunals seeking to elucidate individual and collective labour disputes.

Consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank in cooperation projects with the processes of regional integration and harmonization of standards for free movement within Mercosur.

Education

Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, School of Law of the University of the Republic (1975).

Academic activity

• Professor of Labour Law and Social Security Law at the Faculty of Law, University of the Republic (since 1977) and the University of Montevideo (since 1988).
• Director of Law Review at the University of Montevideo (since 2014).
• Founder of the Human Resource Management Program at the University of Montevideo (2010). Furthermore, he participates in post-graduate courses on Company Law and Human Resources at said University. He was director of the Master Program on Policy and Integration Law in Mercosur at the IEEM (1996 -2000).
• Head of CADE Labour Report (CADE is Business Advisory Corporation) since 1981.
• Lecturer and speaker at Cade courses on various topics related to labour law.

Publications

• “Manual Práctico de Normas Laborales” (“Practical Manual of Labour Standards”, in 2013 he updated with Matias Perez del Castillo the 13^th edition);
• “El Derecho de la Huelga” (“The Right to Strike”, Montevideo, 1992) translated as “Direito da Greve” (São Paulo, 1994);
• “Introducción al Derecho de las Relaciones Colectivas de Trabajo” (“Introduction to the Law of Collective Labour Relations”, 1995),
• “Yearbook of Labour Law” (for several years).
• Published over one hundred articles on Labour Law, labour market, social security and industrial relations in Uruguayan and foreign magazines.

Governmental Positions

• Minister of Labour and Social Security of Uruguay between November of 2002 and March 2005.
• Member of arbitrators list of the MERCOSUR Dispute Settlement System
• Head of the Uruguayan delegation for subgroup 11 for MERCOSUR negotiations.
• Former Uruguayan representative on the Board of Directors of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and member of the Committee on Freedom of Association as a government member (1990-1993).
• Director of Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to accomplish tasks in the field of International Labour Relations, from 1990 until 1993.

Other professional activities

• Board member of BBVA Uruguay from 2007 until 2018.
• Dean of the University of Montevideo from April 2009 until 2015.
• Senior partner of Estudio Perez del Castillo-Navarro-Inciarte-Gari, founded in 1975.

Memberships

• Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (founding member since 1988).
• Latin American Institute of Labour and Social Security.
• Founding member of the Uruguayan Association of Labour Law and Social Security.
• International Association of Friends of the ILO.
• Uruguayan National Academy of Economics.
• National Academy of Labour Law from Brazil, appointed in November 1994.
• Uruguayan Bar Association.
• Co-editor of the Labour Law Journal (1987-2010).

Languages

Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.