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The time has come to pay (or not to pay) the annual bonus
Once the financial year has ended, many companies make an analysis of their results for the purposes of paying their workers an annual bonus during the early part of the following year, in line with the terms set out in the company’s remunerations policy. However, the complicated nature of employment relationships means that, in certain […]
Digital labor rights and substantial increases in contributions, some of the labor innovations for 2019
The month of December 2018 and the first few days of January 2019 have been particularly prolific with respect to labor innovations. Some of these innovations have been practically eclipsed, without having received the attention they deserve. Reading this post will bring you fully up to date with the most important labor innovations in the […]
Disconnecting from work: a new reality
Employers must develop in-house policies laying down the right of employees to disconnect from work, with special emphasis on remote working using digital tools. Recent legislation — Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, 2018 — not only brings Spanish law on the protection of personal data up-to-date, but also includes a section regulating the protection of citizens’ […]
Labor compliance: where’s the line to be drawn when employees receive gifts from customers and suppliers?
At this time of year, doubts arise as to whether a worker can be regarded as unbiased if he/she receives gifts from company suppliers or whether such practices are compatible with the standards of transparency that companies insist on today. Companies must take measures to ensure that employees conduct themselves in a given way. In […]
Can a company stop giving its employees a ticket in the Christmas Lottery?
The gift of a lottery ticket to workers as a Christmas present may be a double-edged sword. The issue requires determining whether it is a workers’ acquired right or a mere gift or gratuity on the part of the company, which does not bind it in the future. Can an employer therefore stop giving its […]
The courts uphold the dismissal, due to absence, of an employee on leave who avoided being notified of a vacancy enabling him to return to work
An employee on leave was notified on two occasions of a vacancy enabling him to return to work, as he himself had requested, and the employer, upon receiving no reply, dismissed him on grounds of serious and culpable breach, based on his unjustified absence from work. A judgment of the High Court of the Principality […]