Neptali B. Salvanera
Neptali “Jojit” B. Salvanera is a Senior Partner at ACCRALAW and a member of the Firm’s Labor and Employment Department. He also serves as the Firm’s Partner-in-Charge of Personnel. He is a seasoned labor law practitioner, author, and educator.
With over 26 years of legal experience, he is widely recognized for handling complex labor matters, including illegal dismissal, unfair labor practices, labor audits, strikes, union organization, and representation issues. He also specializes in the labor aspects of mergers and acquisitions, the conduct of administrative investigation, the planning and implementation of manpower reduction programs, and workplace data privacy concerns. He regularly represents clients before labor tribunals and appellate courts.
Jojit is the author of several law books, namely Labor Standards and Social Legislation, Labor Relations and Employment Termination, Reviewer in Labor Law and Social Legislation, and Employee Discipline and Workplace Investigations. He has likewise authored and co-authored various articles on labor law, including publications by the American Bar Association, the World Bank, Lexology, Chambers, and BusinessWorld.
He is a lecturer in labor law at San Beda University, Mendiola – College of Law, and at San Sebastian College-Recoletos Manila – College of Law, where he also teaches in the Advanced Bar Preparation Course and serves as Subject Adviser for Labor for the SSC-Law Bar Operations. In addition, he teaches Labor Law at the University of Makati School of Law and is a Professional Lecturer at the Department of Commercial Law, College of Business, De La Salle University Manila.
He has been invited as a speaker on various topics, including data privacy, employee discipline, labor relations, administrative investigation, and outsourcing, in both local and international conferences. These include the National HR Summit (Philippines), the In-House Congress (Singapore), the ALB Summit (Singapore), and the Philippine Semiconductor and Electronics Convention and Exhibition (PSECE).
In recognition of his expertise, he has been named a Recommended Lawyer in Labor and Employment by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and was awarded Labour Litigation Lawyer of the Year in the Philippines by Global Law Experts.