More vacation for giving up smoking?
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...
Monthly Archive: November 2017
VAT and subsidies
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...
Is a worker required to obey an international assignment order?
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...
Form 232 replaces form 200 in the annual return of related-party
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...
The “uberization” of labor relations
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,...
Stricter legal controls on the temporary posting of workers in the EU
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...
Can stress cause an occupational accident?
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...
