Category: Labor law trends
Equal Pay Day: Steps towards closing the gender gap in Spain
Equal Pay Day is to be held on February 22. Numerous initiatives in Spain and elsewhere contribute to encouraging gender equality at the workplace. Spanish courts have delivered judgments preventing pay discrimination. And on April 14 we will see the entry into force of Spanish legislation requiring greater pay transparency at companies. We examine below […]
Fired for using social media: Where is the red line in Spain?
In an environment where social media is an amplifier of everything anyone does, a question that comes to mind is whether the activities of workers inside or outside the workplace, by posting pictures, videos or comments could be regarded as employee misconduct that is cause for dismissal. At the beginning of 2020, the media reported […]
Spain: The Social Security opens the door to a flat rate for corporate self-employed individuals
Since the entry into force of the Law on Urgent Reforms for Self-employed Individuals, the Social Security has continuously refused access to so-called “corporate self-employed individuals” to a “flat rate”. Three years after the publication of the Law, it now includes them in the scope of application of the benefit, accepting the interpretation of the […]
Social security classification of senior managers, directors and board members
The social security authorities have launched a campaign to analyze the classification of senior management personnel, directors and board members of commercial companies. Against this backdrop, we review the differences between classifying a relationship under the general social security regime or under the special regime for self-employed workers and their implications In recent months, many […]
Labor law challenges in 2021: digital rights, regulation of digital platforms and 4-day workweeks?
In this post, we tackle some of the labor law challenges that are present for 2021 in such areas as equality, digital rights, minimum wage, forced retirement or the working conditions of workers under outsourcing arrangements or digital platforms. During the last 2020, the dramatic health situation has been accompanied by a legislative whirlwind which, […]
2020: A year of great challenges for labor relation
We say goodbye to 2020 without much sadness. Quite the opposite. We do so with the hope and the excitement that 2021 will be a friendlier year to everyone and, in the labor law arena, given the choice, if not less prolific in legislative developments – since they are needed to modernize our obsolete labour […]