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 these instructions on the grounds that article 40 of the Workers’ Statute, decidedly national in its scope, did not expressly contemplate this possibility (along these lines, among many others, the judgment handed down by the Madrid High Court on January 23, 2013).

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