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The Supreme Court has confirmed that employers may not dismiss employees on a company’s works committee due to their giving evidence at a work-related court hearing …

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The Head of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy, has offered both sides of industry a three-year minimum wage deal, commencing with an increase in 2018 of 4% in order to bring the new minimum wage to 735 …

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The uncertainty arising from the political situation in Spain has led more than 1,800 Catalonia-based companies to move their legal headquarters out of the region …

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The Cortes (national parliament) has passed a new law on autonomous work status which seeks to promote self- employment through 16 measures largely relating to the ease of moving into and out of the status, pension rights and giving concessions for payment of social security …

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The national government has decided to continue until next Spring its programme of vocational training to people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits …

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Ryanair pilots based in Madrid have rejected a 22% pay offer because it was conditional on them not negotiating through a union …

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The Spanish government has lowered its 2018 economic growth projections from 2 …

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Although the National Court (Audiencia Nacional) decided in 2015 that employers are obliged to record the daily work of all of their employees, the Supreme Court has recently ruled that employers are now only required to keep records of overtime hours …

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A survey report published by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has highlighted the issue of company size and level of safety awareness in Spanish enterprises …

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Companies wishing to transfer highly qualified professions from outside the EU to Spain must do so through senior personnel who are legally resident in Spain or another EU country …

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Port workers in Spain are taking strike action in protest at new legislation that will end the existing pre-entry closed shop, whereby employers may only hire workers on union controlled “pool company” lists …

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Those earning the national minimum wage will receive an increase of 8%, as of January 1st 2017 …

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The Spanish parliament has voted to increase parental leave for men to 16 weeks – thus making it equal to statutory maternity leave …

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The right of temporary workers to receive severance payments has always been a cloudy issue …

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On March 15th 2016 the Supreme Court of Spain confirmed that, during a collective redundancy, failure to mention in the individual dismissal letters the selection criteria that were applied does not support a case for unfair dismissal …

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