Ricardo Bolaños has extensive experience in labor law, alternative dispute resolution, and immigration law, regularizing the status of foreigners in El Salvador. He has practiced law as the head of the Labor and Immigration Department at LEXINCORP, developing activities such as representation in administrative conciliations, management of ordinary labor lawsuits, scheduling, work hours, and internal regulations, drafting labor contracts, settlements, mutual termination of employment relations, and supporting documents for the general public. He also handles the drafting and issuance of legal opinions, publishing relevant labor law topics, managing all stages of sanctioning procedures at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, attending hearings at the Ministry’s General Directorate of Social Welfare based on recommendations by safety experts, and regularizing immigration status for foreign workers, accompanying persons, investors, students, and legal representatives. He assists in obtaining consular visas and consulting on entry into the country.

Additionally, he served as a Legal Advisor at the Consumer Defense Center, an NGO where he was responsible for direct user assistance, drafting reports, systematizing information, managing settlements and conciliations, registering agreements made through alternative dispute resolution methods, and preparing legal reports for institutional purposes. He also worked as a Legal Auditor in the Department of Technology Processes and Systems at the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” (UCA), overseeing audits related to occupational health and safety, developing compliance measurement tools, conducting audits, formulating recommendations, and ensuring compliance with labor laws, with special attention to child labor and legal benefits.

Finally, he gained labor law experience from the workers’ perspective during his legal internships at the Labor Rights Center, Institute of Human Rights at UCA, “IDHUCA”. He worked on proposals for reforming current labor legislation, handling administrative procedures with the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, issuing and processing unscheduled inspection requests, attending conciliation hearings, developing and reviewing collective labor contracts, calculating legal economic benefits, and reviewing individual labor contracts in individual employment relationships.