2 Mar, 2016
The 2012 labor reform (instrumented successively around Royal Decree-Law 3/2012, of February 3, 2012, and Law 3/2012, of July 6, 2012) modified various aspects of the existing regulations on collective bargaining, with a view...
15 Apr, 2015
On September 29, 2014, the Supreme Court handed down a judgment reinterpreting the method of calculating severance for dismissal for contracts signed prior to the 2012 Labor Reform. The 2012 Labor Reform amended the amount of severance for unjustified dismissal, reducing it from...
7 Apr, 2015
In recent years, the severance payable for unfair dismissal in Spain has been subject to several reforms. The 2012 Labor Reform reduced the amount of severance for unjustified dismissal in contracts signed thereafter from 45 to 33 days’ salary per year...
4 Mar, 2015
As we mentioned here, one of the features of the 2012 labor reform was the new system of collective bargaining agreement extended validity. We (and many others) also highlighted the fact that the change in legislation would bring about...
26 Jan, 2015
The financial downturn has gone on for so long now that it makes you want to just bury your head in the sand and wait for the whole thing to blow over: out of sight, out...
30 Jul, 2014
The Constitutional Court Judgment of July 16, 2014, ruling on the action for unconstitutionality brought by the Navarre Parliament against Law 3/2012, of July 6, 2012 on urgent measures to reform the labor market;...
2 Apr, 2014
We have dealt in previous articles with the interpretation by the courts of one of the key aspects of the labor reform (Law 3/2012, of July 6, 2012, on urgent measures to reform the labor market), in relation...
4 Mar, 2014
Failures to attend work, even where duly justified, may in certain circumstances lead to a worker being dismissed. This is what has been dubbed an “objective dismissal on grounds of absenteeism” (article 52.d of...
23 Dec, 2013
2014 will see an array of new labor and employment-related developments. For starters, the coming year will bring with it the second labor reform, as recently announced by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness....
30 May, 2013
In order to carry out collective dismissals, provided for in article 51 of the Workers’ Statute, the presence of an objective ground is required: whether economic, technical, organizational or production-related. Thus far, the labor...
