Category: Labor law trends
Family co-responsibility, key element to equal opportunities for men and women at the workplace
Co-responsibility is the equal sharing of household chores and family responsibilities between men and women. The latest legislative reforms on equality in the workplace (and the interpretation of judicial bodies) are inspired by this concept, seeking to ensure that men and women enjoy equally measures related to family care. The aim: ensuring that women’s professional […]
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 […]
Dividends will increase the contribution for self-employed business owners
Self-employed business owners are entitled to compute the income resulting from participation in equity capital for the calculation of annual income, which, in practice, it implies an increase in the self-employed business owner’s contribution, under the new contribution system applicable to them in force since 2023. On January 1, 2023, the reform introduced by Royal […]
It is not a case of ‘everything goes’ when you are working from home: justice marks the red lines of remote working
The remote working boom has also led to an increase in the number of cases that reach the courts in connection with teleworking conditions. We analyze some of the controversial subjects on which decisions have already been handed down by the courts. Remote working can save money both for businesses and employees, but its benefits […]
‘Telework-related accidents’: the fine line between work and personal life when your home is your office
The courts tend to consider work-related accidents as those that occur during working hours at the home of a person, who is teleworking. The boom in the teleworking phenomenon, which has become commonplace in certain professions, makes it necessary to address the issue of telework accidents, as in this case, the line separating the daily […]
Spain: New employer obligations to ensure equality for LGBTI and trans employees
Companies with more than 50 employees have one year in which to comply with the Transgender Law by putting in place an action plan and measures to foster LGTBI equality and an LGTBI anti-harassment protocol Law 4/2023, of February 28, 2022, for real and effective equality of transgender people and to guarantee the rights of […]