Author: Xabier Solis
Do employees who have appealed their medical discharge have to return to work?
One question that usually arises when employees appeal their medical discharges after a temporary disability process is whether they must return to their job or can wait to receive the corresponding resolution. We will see in this post that the general rule is that the medical discharge determines the obligation to return to work, but […]
Spain – The overlap of the weekly rest, does it entitle to benefit from an additional day off?
The answer to this question depends on the regulation of the collective bargaining agreement and the company’s practice on scheduling weekly rests. The setting of the right to rest of employees creates regular disputes and there are multiple judicial decisions that interpret differently the regulations of this right. The labor courts start from the different […]
Personal days: keys to determining whether they are recoverable days and whether they are to be included for calculating fulfillment of the maximum annual working hours
In order to know how personal days should be treated at each organization, it is essential to check how they are defined in the collective labor agreement and look at the company’s standard practice. We often come across collective labor agreements that contain the worker’s right to take so-called discretionary days off, also known as […]