Yearly Archive: 2017

As you might recall, around this time last year we were engaged in a debate over the employer’s obligation to keep daily working time records. The National Appellate Court initially held that the provision...

Smoking at the workplace except in open-air spaces was banned among the measures in Law 28/2005, of December 26, 2005 on anti-smoking health measures and on the sale, supply, use and advertising of tobacco...

Few questions have raised as much controversy to date in the labor law sphere and, more specifically, in the international work assignment sphere. Initially, the Spanish courts tended to reject the mandatory nature of...

When A.M. Snelson called Uber a “modern business phenomenon” in October 2016 and concluded that its drivers were not independent collaborators but rather were linked to the platform by means of a labor relationship,...

Three years after it was passed, Directive 2014/67/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of May 15, 2014, has been transposed into the Spanish legal system. The purpose of the European legislation...

The Social Security Law considers any bodily injuries sustained by a workerdue to or as a result of work performed as an employee on the payroll as an occupational accident. The Supreme Court, in...

Last August we posted an article on how a male worker in the UK decided to turn up for work in a dress, after previously having been reprimanded by the company for turning up...