Category: Labor law trends
Can a rule from the last century adequately respond to new collaboration trends among professionals?
On April 6, 2018, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved the strategic action plans to be implemented by the Labor Inspection Authority up to 2020, and of particular interest among them is the two-fold fight against fraud: the pursuit of sham legal relationships (such as false self-employed workers) and of unjustified temporary employment contracts. Historically, […]
Physical exercise: a contractual obligation?
There are numerous studies linking the regular practice of physical exercise to greater productivity in the workplace. Exercise improves health in general, so logically it enables our bodies to be in a better condition to perform our duties at work. That is the conclusion reached by many studies, one of which is called “The effect […]
Requirements for the electronic signature of employment contracts
In the era of WhatsApp, apps and LinkedIn we live in , the question arises as to whether the electronic signature of the employment contracts equivalents to the traditional handwritten signature. In order to answer that question, we must turn our sights to Regulation No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions […]
Use of GPS tracking only valid during working hours
With barely two months to go until the entry into force of the new General Data Protection Regulation (May 25, 2018), its impact on labor relations continues to be a live issue. On previous occasions we have talked about recordings obtained from video surveillance cameras and their use in the area of labor relations as […]
Do workers loaned by temporary employment agencies have the same rights?
Equal treatment of the employees of a user company and the workers loaned to it by a temporary employment agency (known as an “ETT” in Spain) continues to be a highly relevant issue and has undergone some changes in recent years. Article 11 of Law 14/1994, of June 1,1994, regulating ETTs, has been significantly amended […]
Data protection, a new challenge for companies
Data protection, a new challenge for companies One of the aspects of labor relations in which most doubts arise concerns the data protection obligations, rules and policies with which companies must comply. Indeed, an analysis of circulars, instructions, decisions, guidelines, etc. issued by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) over the years, reveals that a […]