Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Spain as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Spain: Family friendly rights
At the end of February 2024, a further eight week right to parental leave for both mothers and fathers with children under eight was introduced …
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Spain: Recovery of overpaid salary
If an employer overpays an employee by mistake, they may normally recover this shortly afterwards …
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Spain: Job protection being forced too far
Dismissal rules in Spain are already a huge disincentive to companies hiring there on a permanent basis …
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Spain: Courtesy margin at start of day is working time
The Spanish Supreme Court has determined that arrival and breakfast time – up to 15 minutes at the start of a day – is working time …
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Spain: Sustainable mobility-to-work
In Spain, on a typical working day, there are some 37 million trips to and from work …
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Spain: Sick leave rockets across the country (2023)
Last year, there were 450 sick leave days per 1,000 employees …
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Spain: Earnings floor set to rise (2024)
Between 2018 and 2023 the minimum wage rose 47% from €735 (US$800) to €1,080 (US$1,176) per month …
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Spain: Changes to unemployment benefit rules
The majority of those taking up the benefit are women and over-55s and the highest concentration of recipients are in four autonomous communities: Andalusia, Valencia, Madrid and Catalonia …
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Spain: Confusion as Spain introduces half its obligation in respect to parental leave
New rights have been established through modifications to the Workers Statute and Family Law …
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Spain: Declaration of dismissals null and void
There is so much employee protection in Spain it is hard to envisage that there is room for any further safeguards …
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Spain: More opportunities to claim legitimate absence
The Workers’ Statute has been modified to ensure that an employee will not be subject to detriment for claiming work-life balance rights …
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Spain: Work in heat law tightened
The recently approved Royal Decree Law 4/2023 modifies Royal Decree 486/1997 with regard to coping with Summer heat when working outdoors …
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Spain: Implications of criminal law penalties for labour violations
Article 311 of the Criminal Code (CP) has now been in force for six months and has not led to the feared widescale criminal prosecutions of companies and HR personnel …
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Spain: Legal challenge to the process of “extension”
Easily the biggest injustice currently in the labour market is to be found in the process of collective bargaining …
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Spain: Labour reforms have increased permanent contracts – but have they?
Successive Spanish governments have introduced legislation to make it harder to hire staff on temporary, or fixed-term, contracts …
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