Category: Employment contracts
Transparent working conditions: recommendations for companies after the first month of application of the new obligations
Royal Decree 723/2026 requires written information on the essential elements of the employment contract. But is the new document that the company must give to the employee of a contractual nature or is it merely informative? This post offers some recommendations to comply with transparency. Royal Decree 723/2026, of September 9, which entered into force […]
The use of AI in people management requires new guarantees to avoid gender bias
Artificial intelligence (AI) applied to people management (selection, hiring, promotion, and remuneration) can perpetuate and amplify gender biases if algorithms learn from historical data with inequalities. In application of European and Spanish regulations, organizations can reduce this risk by auditing their AI systems, integrating the gender perspective, guaranteeing human supervision and training their teams to […]
Digital Labor Collection 2025
We put the finishing touch to the year 2025 by sharing this Labor and Employment Digital Collection in which we compile our newsletters, publications (Labor and Employment, and ESG) and Labor & Employment Blog posts. It is an excellent opportunity to review the most relevant labor and employment issues of this year and those that […]
The challenge of an ageing population is driving new employment policies aimed at seniors
In view of the ageing of the population, public strategies are being approved aimed at promoting the employment of seniors, while encouraging policies at the company level to promote labor inclusion and retention of senior talent. According to the latest edition of the report on the demographics of Europe published by Eurostat, in the period […]
Is your company ready for the new Strategic Plan of the Labor Inspectorate 2025-2027? Discover its 10 priority objectives
The new Strategic Plan of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate establishes the priority lines of inspection action for the years 2025-2027, defined by 10 objectives (such as detecting fraud in recruitment or contributions, bringing undeclared employment to the surface, controlling working hours, or guaranteeing the rights to equality and inclusion and health and safety). […]
Tune-up for companies with more than 50 employees: review of their main employment obligations
With the start of the “new school year” after the summer break, it is a good time to evaluate the fulfilment of the main labor obligations of companies. In this post we review the specific and most relevant ones of companies with 50 or more employees. In recent years, new obligations have been introduced in […]