Francisco Rodrigues Pereira is a Senior Associate in the Labor and Social Security department at Garrigues, where he has been working since January 2018. With close to a decade of experience advising on employment matters, he offers clients rigorous but pragmatic counsel across a broad range of sectors, being recognized for his ability to deliver strategic legal solutions tailored to the operational realities of sophisticated domestic and international clients.

Francisco has significant expertise in employment law, routinely advising on hiring and termination processes, disciplinary procedures, internal policies, and employment-related litigation. His practice also encompasses due diligence exercises, equality and non-discrimination matters, and harassment investigations, where he is known for his technically sound and commercially oriented advice.

He has developed a particular strength in labor data privacy, including remote surveillance practices (such as video and GPS monitoring), biometric data processing, and workplace policies on psychoactive substance use. His academic background includes a dissertation on employer monitoring of electronic communications.