The Founder of IET

The Dr. Lupo Hernández Rueda was born in Santo Domingo on 29 July 1930. He graduated as a lawyer and Doctor in Law from the University of Santo Domingo in 1954. He was also Founder Professor of the  National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña, at wich he was Professor in Labor Law and Director of the School of Labor Relations. In 1991, he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Labor Law from the Inter-American University. He has taught courses on Trade Unions and Labor Relations.

Hernández Rueda is a member of the Ibero-American Academy of Labor Law and Social Security. He is Honorary Professor of the Pontiff University Madre y Maestra, Honorary Professor of Industrial Relations of the University of San Martin de Porrres, Lima, Perú and Honorary Member of the National Association of Lawyers, Santiago, Dominican Republic. He was President of the First Ibero-American Journals of Labor Law (1976), Santiago, DR and President of the Dominican Association of Labor Law and Latin-American Social Security (1976).

He is a member of the Central Executive Committee of the International Society of Labor Law and Social Security. He is also a Founder Member of the Dominican Association of Industrial Relations, the Central American Association of Labor Law, the Dominican Association of Labor Law, Professor at the Association of the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña, the Dominican Association of the Writers and Journalists and the Dominican Association of the Lawyers. In 1974, he was distinguished by the Dominican Institute of Social Security (IDSS) as Writer of the Social Hymn, and was awarded the medal of Merit for Work (Brazil, 1980).

Hernández Rueda took part in several international conferences and seminars on Labor Law, in different roles. He has published several books on Labor Law, amog wich the most outstanding is the Dominican Labor Law Manual (6th Ed. 1994), The Dismissal (1972), Labor Jurisprudence (Edited in 1958, 1968), Labor Law Procedure (1994), The Codification of Dominican Labor Law (currently being print) and Social Security on Santo Domingo (1996).

He has been legal advisor to the Secretarial for Labor as well as Legal Advisor to the Division of International Relations and Labor Studies within the States Secretariat, Chief of the National Service of Employment and Chief of the Trade Union Department and Labor Education. He was legal advisor to the Sugar Corporation of the Dominican Republic, General Advisor of FOUPSA (1961-1962) as well as Director of the Seminar of the Confederation.

In 1991 he was appointed as State Secretary for Labor. The same year he became a member of the Amendment Commission which elaborated the new Labor Code in the Dominican Republic. In his private life, he is an active professional author of several books of literature. He has been awarded the National Poetry Prize on several occasions and the National Prize for Essay (1980).