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  • The new social rights and covering their cost

    Companies do not have an unlimited capacity to take on their new employment obligations.

  • Spain: These are the social security rules applicable to workers relocated abroad

    A new piece of legislation defines in detail the cases in which relocated workers will be treated as having registered status for social security purposes, such as in the absence of a bilateral agreement, where such an agreement does not apply to the specific case concerned, or the maximum period for keeping up contributions in the worker’s country of origin has ended.

  • Spain: Royal Decree 668/2023 amends the regulations on pension plans and funds

    The royal decree contains, among other new legislation, implementation of the rules on simplified occupational pension plans, the rules on the non-discrimination principle and the provisions on merging plans where corporate transactions result in the same company becoming sponsor of more than one occupational pension plan or sponsor of an occupational pension plan and at the same time policyholder for one or more employee welfare and pension benefit plans.

  • End of the extraordinary measures implemented in the workplace due to COVID-19

    The order declares the end of health crisis and the termination of the extraordinary measures such as those related to the minimum interpersonal safety distance of 1.5 meters between workers or the promotion of teleworking, among others.

  • Spain: Options for paid leave and 'à la carte' working hours are broadened and other employment measures relating to work-life balance are approved

    Royal Decree-Law 5/2023 transposes, among others, the EU Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers which, before the end of the legislative session, was passing through parliament as the Families Bill.  

  • Spain: Basic equality and diversity obligations at a glance

    The proliferation of equality and diversity regulations has meant that companies need to remain attentive to a whole set of obligations. 

  • Whistleblowing channels at companies in Spain: the key aspects of the new law protecting whistleblowers from all angles

    The law protecting whistleblowers in Spain requires companies with 50 or more workers to have an internal whistleblowing system in place and sets out fines of up to €1,000,000. 

  • Spain - The labor framework: between legislative chaos and demolition of the traditional labor relations model

    In 2022 alone and so far in 2023, there have been at least ten important legislative amendments to labor and employment matters in laws which are not not specifically labor-related. And there are a few bills in the works which will also establish rules having a direct impact on labor relations. This is prompting a silent demolition process of the traditional labor relations process.

  • Labor Newsletter - May 2023

    In this new issue of our Labor Newsletter we highlight the article by Federico Durán: 'The labor framework: between regulatory chaos and the demolition of the traditional model of labor relations'; and the most relevant legal developments in the labor field: news, regulation, sentences...

  • The EU addresses in depth the principles of transparency and equal pay between men and women and the promotion of genuine equality of persons with disabilities

    The directive to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms has been published. In addition, a resolution of the European Parliament addressing very diverse aspects relating to disability, forming part of the European Union Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030.