Tag: contract
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 […]
Keys to the temporary contract that companies can enter into with artists, technicians and auxiliary staff
Since the 2021 labor reform, the Workers’ Statute has reinforced the presumption that the employment contract is concluded for an indefinite period, with the temporary contract reserved for exceptional cases. One of these, due to the specialties of the performing, audiovisual and musical arts sector, is the fixed-term artistic employment contract applicable to artists and […]
Can they fire me if I don’t agree to working part-time?
A judgment from the Supreme Court reopens the debate on dismissals of employees who refuse to change their full-time contract to part-time when there is a reduction in the company’s workload. A full-time contract is linked to the performance of the tasks specific to the category engaged, within the working hours set by the collective […]
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 […]
The thin red line between volunteer work and an employment relationship
Recent decades have seen the growth of what is known as the third sector, or non-profit sector, due, among other things, to the increasingly voluntary, altruistic and selfless participation of society in activities of general interest. The general situation of crisis and the rise in unemployment have fostered an upward trend in volunteer relationships in […]