11 Jan, 2017
The Supreme Court has ruled, in a judgment delivered on October 17, 2016, that for the purposes of determining the existence of a collective layoff, the reference unit must be the company, if the...
20 Oct, 2015
In its Judgment of July 22, 2015 (appeal 2161/2014), among others, the Supreme Court recently analyzed the possibility of payment in installments of severance for dismissal agreed upon at the end of the relevant consultation...
26 Aug, 2015
It is not unusual to find reports in the press of collective lay-off proceedings in which older employees are among the groups hardest hit. It was this that led to the approval of the...
20 Aug, 2015
Despite numerous efforts to weather the crisis that has beset Spain in recent years, many business owners have found themselves heading towards insolvency, unable to pay the amounts owed to their creditors and...
12 May, 2014
We have already discussed in this blog the legal uncertainty regarding the obligation on companies that carry out collective layoffs to make an economic contribution to the Public Treasury. In the two years and...
8 Apr, 2014
Until recently, the majority of legal experts took the view that, in cases of transfers of workplace under article 40 of the Workers’ Statute, the numerical thresholds of affected workers to be taken into...
14 May, 2013
The regime governing financial contributions to the Public Treasury in collective layoffs that affect workers aged 50 or older has been amended several times since additional provision sixteen of Law 27/2011, of August 1,...
