Tag: dismissals
Can artificial intelligence justify objective dismissals?
Spanish courts have begun to rule on whether AI can justify an objective dismissal, offering their resolutions essential criteria for Human Resources departments planning digital transformation processes with an impact on their workforce. Artificial intelligence has ceased to be a theoretical debate and has become a factor that is already conditioning termination decisions in companies. […]
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 […]
Thresholds considered in relation to collective layoff procedures: the CJEU changes the rules
A recent judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has established new criteria for determining the point at which a collective layoff procedure is required because the thresholds established for individual dismissals have been exceeded. The European court’s judgment brings added uncertainty for businesses in what are already difficult times, with […]