Ownership and directorship in family businesses
In May and July of this year, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down two judgements in which the conclusion it reaches is that to benefit from the so-called “family business” regime, it is not...
Yearly Archive: 2016
Changes to the rules on directors’ compensation
The Rulings of the Directorate General of Registries and Notaries dated May 10 and June 17, 2016 were published on June 6 and July 21, 2016 respectively, eliminating the uncertainty in relation to directors’...
European justice and labor market duality
The recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment of September 14, 2016 has resulted in certain sources hastily announcing the end of the duality between indefinite-term and temporary employment contracts and the immediate equivalence of severance...
The Constitutional Court and video surveillance in the workplace. Change of criteria or mere clarification?
On March 3, 2016 the Constitutional Court issued a judgment holding that fundamental rights had not been infringed in the use of video surveillance images recorded in the workplace for disciplinary purposes, without formally notifying the employees that...
Seniority and severance for dismissal, when there have been several contracts during the labor relationship
Companies are considered to have committed malpractice if they calculate a worker’s seniority according to parameters that do not comply with current case law criteria, when the worker has been employed by the same...
Establishments that provide Wi-Fi may be forced to secure it with a password
A recent judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union has held that although the owner of a Wi-Fi network through which contents that infringe copyright are shared is not liable for such...
Recording of daily working hours by companies: to control the workers or the company?
Some months ago in this Blog, we commented on a judgment by the National Appellate Court (dated December 4, 2015) and discussed the possibility of it becoming a new precedent in relation to the recording of...
Refunds under collar clauses are accountable to the tax authorities
Since the Supreme Court judgment of May 9, 2013, there have been many financial institutions that have eliminated “collar clauses” from their mortgage contracts and have refunded the excess interest paid under those clauses...
Wealth Tax
Wealth Tax, which has been misrepresented on occasions as the tax which is levied on high-net-worth individuals or on the extremely wealthy, is currently in the news owing to the announcement, at the beginning...
The fixed-term contract, direct hit and… sunk?
Days after its publication, there can be no doubt as to the major reaction caused in the media by the judgment handed down by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) on...