14 Dec, 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...
5 Dec, 2017
As a result of the internationalization of economic relations, the use of powers of attorney executed outside Spain is becoming increasingly widespread. This has led to a debate as to which requirements these documents...
30 Nov, 2017
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...
29 Nov, 2017
As we have seen on a number of occasions in the past, the VAT treatment given to subsidies has long been a controversial issue. Over recent months, the Catalan tax administration has carried out...
23 Nov, 2017
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...
21 Nov, 2017
During the month of November, corporate income taxpayers who carried out transactions with related persons or entities in 2016 must file a new informational return (form 232), which replaces the information on related-party transactions...
16 Nov, 2017
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,...
8 Nov, 2017
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...
3 Nov, 2017
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...
26 Oct, 2017
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...
