Employment (Labour) Law updates in Spain

Protection for unemployment as a result of Erte due to force majeure or for economic, technical, organizational and production reasons As long as the extraordinary situation derived from the COVID-19 continues, to those included in article 264 of the LGSS and to those who have the status of working partners of companies and ass... Read More

Due to the economic situation that Spain has gone through in the last few years, and the pressure that the Government has come under to liberalise employment laws, a number of important changes to Employment law in Spain were made in 2012 and 2013, which made the dismissal of employees for economic reasons relatively easier for ... Read More

[video src="https://youtu.be/CWrvo-C_FWI"] Grounds for challenging a dismissal We recently discussed dismissal from employment in Spain based on financial grounds i.e. where a business is suffering an economic downturn and the employer claims they must lay-off staff for the business to remain commercially viable.   We a... Read More

The Constitutional Court in Madrid has ruled that the monitoring of an employee's email account by the employer company did not infringe the employee's constitutional right to privacy nor the right under the Spanish Constitution not to have private communications intercepted, particularly those communications made by telephone, ... Read More

The effects of the economic crisis continue to be felt and with as much as 25% of the Spanish economy believed to be outside the purview of the state and an estimated 400,000 illegal workers, the government is planning to get tough with a series of measures designed to impact on the black market. The new campaign by the Spani... Read More

Unfortunately, for many non-Spanish living and working in Spain, they find employment - at least initially - in jobs with irregular working patterns in hospitality and other industries dependant upon seasonal fluctuations such as tourism. This can lead to rather higher frequencies of redundancies as a result of the precarious na... Read More

The Spanish Workers Statute is a legislative code applicable to employees who, on a voluntary basis, provide paid services within the scope of organization and management of an employer. Therefore, its main objective is to establish a regulation of the employment relationship between the employer and the employee that arises fro... Read More