Publications

• Guide to Avoiding Serious Telecommuting Penalties
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the employment activity in which until now there was a huge legislative gap and the worker representation to which remote workers will have a right
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• Employment News 2020: Royal Decree-Law 28/2020 of 22nd September on remote working Learn more
• Companies predict mass layoffs from October 1st
  Alfredo Aspra explains that there are sectors with a very serious lack of definition for the future and therefore regulations that can contribute to maintaining employment are urgently needed in El Economista
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• Missing the point of labour reform
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the current legislative situation in labor matters in an article published by Expansión
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• Employment lawyers are already preparing a "big wave of layoffs" in the autumn
  Alfredo Aspra explains in Vozpópuli that as of October the employment safeguard clause will cease and on 30th September Article 2 of Royal Decree Law 9/2020, which prevents objective dismissals on economic grounds, will cease to be in force
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• When you can be fired if you get coronavirus
  Alfredo Aspra and Helena Vilar analyze the serious impact of a COVID-19 infected employee on the company's activity
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• Nullity of dismissal due to situation of Temporary Incapacity
  Regarding the Judgment of the High Court of Justice of Galicia dated June 9th 2020
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• The Record of Temporary Employment Regulation (Erte) is valid even if it is extended to recoverable paid leave
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the sentence established by the Audiencia Nacional
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• The Record of Temporary Employment Regulation (Erte) will be void if the deadline for setting up the commission is not met
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the Supreme Court ruling
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• The Supreme Court extends to new holiday pay bonuses
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the Supreme Court ruling
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• “Thank you for joining Zoom. You're fired.”
  Alfredo Aspra analyses video call layoffs that weaken employee protection and create legal uncertainty in the company
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• Collective bargaining agreement applicable to multi-service companies without their own company agreement
  Regarding the High Court's Ruling of 11th June 2020
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• Royal Decree-Law 25/2020 of 3 July on urgent measures to support economic recovery and employment Learn more
• Leaving your post to commit a criminal act
  Regarding the Judgment of the High Court of Justice of Extremadura of 11th February 2020
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• The importance of the material resources mitigates a succession of contracts
  Regarding the Supreme Court's Ruling of 3rd March 2020
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• The regulatory salary of an expatriate worker dismissed in the framework of a collective dismissal and the discharging effectiveness of the settlement
  Regarding the STS of 21st February 2020
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• Practical guide to the new furlough scheme for companies and workers
  Alfredo Aspra and Pedro Alonso answer the practical questions about the new furlough scheme for companies and workers in a guide
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• This state of teleworking in Spain: how companies adapted in record time and many regulatory doubts
  Alfredo Aspra analyses teleworking in Spain, a new way of organising work that companies have had to adopt in record time, in El Economista
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• Royal Decree-Law 24/2020, of 26th June, on social measures for the reactivation of employment and protection of self-employment and competitiveness of the industrial sector Learn more
• European Guide to support Employers | COVID-19 Impact
  Guide to all employee support measures that different countries in Europe have put in place to alleviate the effects of COVID-19
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• Nature of the legal relationship of platform couriers
  Regarding the Order of the Court of Justice of the European Union dated 22th April 2020
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• Equality and registration of salaries | Draft regulatory texts
  Regarding RDL 6/2019 of 1st March on urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities for women and men in employment and the workplace
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• Urgent prevention, containment and coordination measures to address the health crisis caused by COVID-19
  Regarding the 9th June Royal Decree-Law 21/2020, on urgent prevention, containment and coordination measures to deal with the health crisis caused by COVID-19
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• Private detectives as agents provocateurs
  Regarding the 19th February 2020 Supreme Court decision
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• 29th May Royal Decree-Law 20/2020 establishing the Minimum Income Scheme
  Regarding 29th May Royal Decree-Law 20/2020 establishing the Minimum Income Scheme
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• 26th May Royal Decree Law 19/2020 adopting supplementary measures in the agricultural, scientific, economic, employment and social security and tax fields to alleviate the effects of COVID-19
  Regarding the 26th May Royal Decree-Law 19/2020, adopting supplementary measures in the agricultural, scientific, economic, employment and social security and tax areas to alleviate the effects of COVID-19
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• Seven key legal and health points that companies must take into account when returning to work
  Alfredo Aspra, Rocío Vivo and José María Gallego explain the keys to recovering activity at work after the declaration of the state of alert
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• The 'rebus sic stantibus' clause suspends agreement benefits
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the 4th March 2019 ruling of the Madrid High Court of Justice in El Economista
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• The senior management contract requires autonomy to act
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the 3rd February 2020 ruling of the Madrid High Court of Justice
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• Employment Developments 2020: 12th May Royal Decree-Law 18/2020 on social measures to defend employment
  Regarding the 12th May Royal Decree-Law 18/2020 on social measures to defend employment
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• Tourism, commerce, and hotel industry will be able to dismiss more easily after the ERTE
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the time register that the unions use to challenge ERTE
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• ERTE workers who refuse to rejoin can be dismissed
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the decision of the Madrid High Court of Justice (TSJ) of Madrid
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• Measures taken in the scope of Covid-19 social welfare: Availability of vested rights in pension plans
  Regarding the 21st April Royal Decree-Law 15/2020 on urgent additional measures to support the economy and employment
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• Exceptional unemployment benefit regulated by Article 33 of Royal Decree Law 11/2020 Learn more
• The Directorate General for Employment’s criterion on extension and withdrawal in furlough schemes Learn more
• Unjustified sentence in the scope of an ERTE due to rights abuse
  Regarding the 29th April 2019 Madrid High Court ruling
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• Panic in SMEs about the upcoming expiry of the Ertes
  Alfredo Aspra explains that what SMEs can do now is take advantage of an Erte for economic, technical, organizational or production reasons (Etop) in El Economista
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• Refusal of medical examination is grounds for dismissal
  Alfredo Aspra explains that the worker's refusal to carry out the obligatory medical examination was unjustified and therefore he does not see that the dismissal is null in El Economista
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• Main employment-related measures in relation to COVID-19 adopted by the 28th April Royal Decree Law 16/2020
  Regarding the 28th April Royal Decree Law 16/2020 on procedural and organisational measures to deal with COVID-19 in the area of the administration of justice
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• Unilateral termination of the employment contract due to late payment of wages and ERTEs
  Concerning the Judgement issued by the No. 3 Albacete Labour Court, dated 28th October 2019
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• Main employment-related measures in relation to COVID-19 adopted by the 21st April Royal Decree Law 15/2020
  Regarding Royal Decree-Law 15/2020 of 21st April on urgent supplementary measures to support the economy and employment
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• National Social Security Institute (TGSS) guide for moratoriums, postponement of quotas, furlough schemes and reductions in working hours & Instructions for signing off in COVID-19 situations Learn more
• All companies must negotiate with the trade unions
  Alfredo Aspra analyses if the company should go to the unions in an article published in El Economista
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• Lack of respect and consideration for co-workers
  Regarding the December 5th 2019 Ruling of the High Court of Justice of Aragon
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• Expats in time of Coronavirus
  Alfredo Aspra explains that expatriates have the right to request not to provide the services for which they have been hired, but this does not imply repatriation, in El País
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• Possible consequences of Covid-19 on the duration and holiday periods of workers
  Questions raised by employers and employees on the length and days of holidays in the present year 2020
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• Accidents during teleworking: how to prove that it is at work and not at home
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the key factors to establish if it is an accident at work or not
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• News on employment matters in relation to COVID-19 adopted by Royal Decree Law 11/2020
  The 31st March Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, adopting additional urgent measures in the social and economic field to deal with COVID-19
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• Are companies being watched over or strangled?
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the initiatives taken by the Government to curb the economic impact of the Covid-19
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• The Labour Inspectorate will count on the Inland Revenue and the police to review Ertes
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the main causes alleged in the Ertes
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• Recoverable paid leave for employees of non-essential services during COVID-19
  Royal Decree Law 10/2020 of 29th March 2020 regulating recoverable paid leave for employees who do not provide essential services, in order to reduce population mobility in the context of the fight against COVID-19
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• Extension of the state of alert declared by Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14th March, and new employment regulations in Royal Decree Law 9/2020, of 27th March, which adopts supplementary measures in the employment sphere to alleviate the effects of COVID-19
  Regarding RD-Law 9/2020, of 27th March, which adopts supplementary measures, in the employment sphere, to alleviate the effects of COVID-19
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• A part-time worker who announces "I'm quitting" voluntarily resigns
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the sentence that admits the existence of an employment relationship between the company and the worker
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• Companies cannot require their guards to have a certificate of criminal record
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the illicit processing of personal data considered by the National High Court
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• It is appropriate to dismiss someone for insulting the bosses son
  In El Economista Alfredo Aspra explains that to think that the employer should be forced to trust and live with one of his employees is considered extremely unfair
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• Main measures related to COVID-19 in the employment sphere adopted by Royal Decree Law 8/2020
  Regarding Royal Decree-Law 8/2020 on urgent exceptional measures to deal with the economic and social impact of COVID-19
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• Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, declaring the state of alert for the management of the health crisis caused by COVID-19
  Regarding Royal Decree 463/2020 of 14 March, declaring the state of alert for the management of the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19
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• Chambers Europe 2020 highlights Andersen Tax & Legal in the Dispute Resolution, Corporate, Employment and Tax areas
  The editorial includes Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre and Álvaro Martín as outstanding lawyers in Dispute Resolution, Javier Mata in Insolvency, Alfredo Aspra, Sergio Juárez and Pablo Santos in Employment
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• And when will we have employment measures?
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the necessary measures of temporary and exceptional character that must be taken to approach the empoyment problem generated by the incidence of the new coronavirus in an article that is published in Expansión
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• Large companies and SMEs from all sectors consider starting ERTE and ERE because of the coronavirus crisis
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the concerns of the companies of the different sectors to initiate ERTE and ERE before the crisis of the coronavirus and alert of possible conflicts in sectors like banking in Expansión
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• Coronavirus | Royal Decree-Law 6/2020 of 10th March adopting certain urgent measures in the economic sphere and for the protection of public health
  Regarding Royal Decree-Law 6/2020 of 10th March
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• Coronavirus | Possible employment measures and other issues of concern
  Analysis of the measures adopted by the Community of Madrid regarding the evolution of the Covid-19 from an employment point of view
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• The self-employed can replace employees to maintain their activity
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes if the company can be denounced for isolating a healthy worker in an article published by El Economista
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• Workers cannot close the company: the Inspectorate must act Workers cannot close the company: the Inspectorate must act
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the guide of the Employment Ministry in an article published today by El Economista
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• Huge Concern
  Alfredo Asptra analyzes the activity unilaterally by the worker who collects the guide of the Ministry before the coronavirus
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• A suspicion of contagion is not enough to leave the workplace
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the legal keys of how to deal with the coronavirus in a report published today by El Economista
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• Extension of the scope of action of the ITSS, in certain cases, to spaces outside the company, centre or workplace where the work is carried out
  Regarding the Royal Decree-Law 5/2020 of 25 February
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• Time control must be maintained if teleworking is adopted
  Alfredo Aspra explains that companies must promote hygiene rules among their staff to avoid the risk of infection by the coronavirus in El Economista
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• Employment experts already advising companies to make contingency plans
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the measures that companies should adopt in the face of the coronavirus crisis in El Economista
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• Coronavirus | Practical recommendations from the occupational and preventive point of view
  Possible actions and recommendations to be carried out by employers from an employment and preventive point of view
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• Andersen Tax & Legal Iberia modifies its corporate governance and creates a Board of Directors
  The Board of Directors is made up of seven directors, with Jaime Olleros as Chairman and CEO, and is responsible for developing the firm's strategic plan
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• Starting date for paid leave: Regarding the High Court of La Rioja ruling of September 4, 2019
  Regarding the STSJ La Rioja of September 4, 2019
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• Employment Ministry to use 'Big Data' in its offensive against false self-employed
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the Employment Ministry´s use of Big Data to detect cases of employment fraud.
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• An impact that extends to the entire economy
  Alfredo Aspra, Employment Law Partner at Andersen Tax & Legal analyses the impact of the outsourcing reform on the economy
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• Application of the adaptation and distribution of the working day ex art. 34.8 Statute of Worker’s Rights to the care of children over 12 years
  Regarding the main changes introduced by RDL 6/2019 of 1 March
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• Díaz begins his labour counter-reform with the repeal of the dismissal for misconduct
  Alfredo Aspra explains that absenteeism continues to be one of the main obstacles to be overcome for companies' productivity ratios in El Economista
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• 10th February 2020 Labour Chamber of the National Court Ruling on effective working time (travel, overtime and coffee, cigarette breaks, etc.)
  Regarding the 10th February 2020 judgment of the National Court Labour Chamber
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• The Labour Court judge hears the debt to an employee guaranteed by the company
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the claim of amount presented by a company against a worker
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• What we know about the new employment policy
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the government's new labour policy and explains that too restrictive and strict regulation could lead to serious job destruction
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• Can reception of the economic benefit of Temporary Incapacity exceed the period of 18 months for the same illness?
  About the Supreme Court Ruling of 6 November 2019
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• Disciplinary dismissal due to simulation in clocking in
  Regarding the Judgment of the Supreme Court of Andalusia (Granada Court) of 19th September 2019
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• The daily wage is calculated by dividing all the days of the year
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the Supreme Court's ruling that clarifies the calculation for the payment of salaries when a whole month isn’t worked
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• The law obliges guaranteeing the education of the employees
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the legal obligation of companies to favour the accessibility of their workers to education and training for the benefit of their right to professional promotion
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• Taxation of compensation paid under the post-contractual non-competition pact: binding consultation V2736-19 of 8 October 2019
  On the subject of the binding consultation V2736-19 of 8 October 2019
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• The law considers it 'transfer' in sending a worker away for 12 months in three years
  Alfredo Aspra analyses if it is transfer and not temporary displacement if a worker is assigned to different work centres for more than 12 months in three years
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• Main developments in the field of social security introduced by Royal Decree-Law 18/2019 of 27 December
  With regard to Royal Decree-Law 18/2019 adopting certain measures in the field of taxation, cadastre and social security
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• The Constitutional endorses the dismissal for several misconducts
  Alfredo Aspra explains in an article in El Economista that when the intermittent repetition of several absences reaches thresholds that the labour legislator considers enough to justify absenteeism, it can justify the worker's dismissal
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• Christmas Hampers - generous gift or company duty?
  Regarding the Supreme Court Ruling of 19 November 2019
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• Companies take advantage of sickness layoffs to end absenteeism
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the dismissals for justified intermittent absences from work in an article published today in the El Economista newspaper
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• Best Lawyers 2020 recognizes 54 Andersen Tax & Legal professionals among the best lawyers in Spain
  In this edition, Andersen Tax & Legal in Spain has 54 outstanding professionals with a total of 81 distinctions, among them, Maria Olleros, Tax area partner, who has been recognized as 'Lawyer of the Year' in Venture Capital
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• Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons reporting infringements of Union law
  Concerning the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of persons reporting infringements of Union law of 26th November 2019
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• Taxation of senior management staff pay-outs
  In connection with the judgement of the Supreme Court (Administrative çlitigation Chamber) of 5 November 2019
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• Is it possible to correct the working day with the register?
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the Sentence that validates the establishment of corrective factors as a measure to unite the rigidity of the recording of working hours in relation to flexibility and organizational autonomy in Expansión
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• Ruling rejects that the employer changes the working schedule by 30 minutes
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the ruling of the TSJPV that rejects that the employer change 30 minutes the working hours in an article published in the newspaper El Economista
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• Grandparents do not count in adapting the working day
  Alfredo Aspra explains in El Economista that grandparents do not count when it comes to adapting the working day of the worker because although they are an important support, they cannot be moved over them functions inherent to parental authority, which corresponds exclusively to the parents
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• Adaptation of Art. 34.8 of the Statute of Worker’s Rights
  Regarding the Judgment of the Labour Court of October 30, 2019
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• Taxation of the amounts deriving from the payment of severance indemnities recognised as unjustified
  Regarding the Judgment of the Administrative Chamber of the National High Court of 3 July 2019
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• Is it valid to terminate a worker's contract after repeated faults? The keys to the ruling of the Constitutional Court
  Alfredo Aspra explains in El Economista that an intermittent repetition of absenteeism on the part of the worker can lead to his dismissal if they reach thresholds that the employment legislator considers enough to justify absenteeism
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• Agreement between the Autonomous State Labour and Social Security Inspectorate and the Wage Guarantee Fund
  The purpose of this Agreement is to establish a suitable procedure for the exchange of data by FOGASA and ITSS in order to check that the social and labour regulations are correctly complied with
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• The Department of Labour 'scares' companies by letter to bring undeclared work to the Surface
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the sanctions faced by companies and self-employed if the Social Security detects that part-time contracts of their employees do not conform to reality in an article published by Expansión
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• The Judiciary still doubtful about what time schedules are recorded
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the controversies arising from the current Royal Decree Law 8/2019, which regulates the new record of working day in an article published by El Economista
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• The Judicairy declares unjustified dismissal of bus driver who tested positive for drugs
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the ruling of the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands that has declared the dismissal of a bus driver who tested positive in cannabis after an accident unfair in an article published in El Econimista
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• A turning point?
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the resolution of the lawsuit filed by the General Treasury of Social Security against Roodfoods Spain S. L. (Deliveroo) that affects more than 500 home food deliverers for the newspaper Expansión
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• Justice applies 'minimum standard' for paid leave
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the minimum standard for paid leave established by the Superior Court of Justice of Navarre
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• The company can deduct late arrival from the payroll
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the ruling of the Audiencia Nacional that allows companies with a time register to deduct from their payroll the penalties for arriving late to work in an article published by El Economista
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• The office worker clerk is paid for his task and not for the activity of the company
  Alfredo Aspra analyses the ruling on the contribution for accidents at work and professional illness of employees in an article published by El Economista
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• Can the company force me to wear heels and skirts? It depends
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the dress code that is part of the right to entrepreneurial freedom
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• The company can inform the staff of the collective bargaining agreement negotiation
  Alfredo Aspra comments on the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Basque Country that the company can directly inform its workers about the negotiations of the collective bargaining agreement without counting on the unions in Cinco Días
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• Is it suitable to record the working hours of managers?
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the working hours register for managers until the new obligation has a regulation, in a report published in the newspaper Expansión
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• Can a company fire an employee who overworks?
  Alfredo Aspra explains the legal risk involved for both companies and workers working overtime in a report published by Cinco Días
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• Companies face sanctions if they do not establish the daily working day record from 12th May
  Andersen Tax & Legal organizes a Working Breakfast on the "Key Aspects derived from the new obligation of daily registration of the working day" in which it is shown that the companies must have, at least, established a plan of implantation of the registration of the working day for that date.
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• Alfredo Aspra: "It is not mandatory that the hourly register should necessarily be agreed via collective bargaining"
  Interview for the Buen Gobierno magazine of El Economista by Alfredo Aspra on the main keys to the new requirement to register the daily working hours of workers
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• Instructions determining the procedure in the event of withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union
  The 25 March 2019 Ruling sets out the instructions determining the procedure in the event of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union without the agreement provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union having been reached
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• Absence of the value of the severance payment with respect to the company when it is only signed by the worker: Regarding the High Court judgement of January 30th 2019
  The Social Chamber of the Supreme Court issued on January 30, 2019, by virtue of which it is concluded that the settlement only releases the undersigned and for the concepts it includes. This does not preclude the company from claiming lawfulness and later wrongly overpaid to its employees and that, therefore, only obliges the employee
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• Interim contracts that are lawful at their termination do not give rise to a right to compensation. | Supreme Court judgement 13th March 2019
  After almost two and a half years since the ECJ shocked the Spanish labour market by equating the compensation derived from the termination of temporary interim contracts to that of permanent employees, the Spanish SC has finally settled the ruling that temporary interim contracts do not generate any type of compensation once their term has expired
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• Royal Decree-Law 8/2019, of 8th March, on urgent measures for social protection and the fight against job insecurity in the workplace
  Royal Decree-Law 8/2019, of 8th March, on urgent measures for social protection and the fight against job insecurity in the workplace
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• Andersen Tax & Legal climbs positions in the Chambers Europe 2019 ranking
  The publisher highlights the areas of Dispute Resolution, Corporate/M&A, Employment and Tax
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• Urgent measures to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in employment and occupation
  Royal Decree-Law of 1st March on urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between women and men in employment and occupation
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• Main labour measures following a possible no agreement exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union
  Royal Decree-Law 5/2019 of 1st March adopting contingency measures in the event of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union without the agreement provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union having been reached
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• DGOSS criterion to continue to apply partial retirement
  DGOSS (Directorate-General for Social Security Organisation) criterion of 25 February 2019 on the requirements set out in Royal Decree-Law 20/2018, of 7th December, to continue to apply partial retirement in its regulation prior to the entry into force of Law 27/2011, of 1st August, to pensions caused before 1st January 2023
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• Award of the "Equality in the Company"
  Order PCI/120/2019, of 31 January, announcing the award of the "Equality in the Company" logo for 2018, and establishing its regulatory bases
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• Legal rules for social security contributions, unemployment, cessation of activity protection, Wage Guarantee Fund and vocational training for the financial year 2019
  Order TMS/83/2019 of 31 January developing the legal rules for social security contributions, unemployment, cessation of activity protection, Wage Guarantee Fund and vocational training for the financial year 2019
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• Preponderant criterion of adaptation to the existing risk in the specific occupation in terms of contributions for accidents at work and occupational disease
  Regarding the Supreme Court Judgment of October 26th, 2018
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• A few laps away from being fired for absenteeism: a looming repeal?
  Regarding the Ruling of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court of 16 October 2019
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• Trade union information "in paper form" and the prohibition of access to work with any personal object
  Regarding the Decision of the National High Court, November 15, 2018
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• Main updates introduced for the revaluation of public pensions and other urgent social, labour and employment measures
  Main labour and social security updates introduced by Royal Decree-Law 28/2018, of 28 December, for the revaluation of public pensions and other urgent social, labour and employment measures.
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• Non-competition settlement lacks tax benefits
  Alfredo Aspra analyzes the refusal of the General Directorate of Taxes (DGT) that the compensations have the 30% bonus in Income Tax
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• Establishment and entry into force of the Interprofessional Minimum Wage for 2019
  Royal Decree of Friday 28 December 2018
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• The collaborative economy is here and here to stay
  Conference for journalists on collaborative and platform economics: consequences for traditional companies in the Spanish and European markets.
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• The effects of non-compliance with a Covenant of Permanence
  About the ruling of the Madrid High Court of Justice dated May 11, 2018
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• Disciplinary dismissals without cause, nullity in favour of the workers
  About the decision of the High Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha of September 11, 2018
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• The succession of contracts. The provisions of the collective bargaining agreements are called into question
  Regarding the Supreme Court Judgement of 27 September 2018
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• Transposition of directives on the protection of employees' pension liabilities
  Royal Decree-Law 11/2018 of 31 August
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• The payment of housing rent and its consideration as a computable salary module with respect to severance payments
  About the High Court Judgement of July 19, 2018
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• practical application measures contained in the Master Plan for Decent Work
  Alfredo Aspra and José Antonio Sanfulgencio analyse the main practical application measures contained in the Master Plan for Decent Work (2018, 2019 and 2020) including mention of the four proposed legislation initiatives presented
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• Expired Collective Bargaining Agreement
  On the Judgments of the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court of 5 and 7 June 2018
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• Transport and clothing allowances in part-time contracts
  In relation to STS 22nd March 2018
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• The nature of the contractual legal relationship in the model of Collaborative Economics, Platform Economics among others
  Regarding the Judgments of March 22 and June 1, 2018
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• The European Union Court of Justice corrects and clarifies its criterion on the compensation regime applicable to temporary contracts in Spain
  Alfredo Aspra and José Antonio Sanfulgencio analyze the two judgments of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice dated 5th June 2018
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• Turn of the screw in the doctrine of the Supreme Court of Justice of Madrid with respect to temporary video surveillance cameras
  About the High Court of Justice of Madrid sentence dated February 7, 2018 (Mutua Cualtis Case)
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• The review of e-mails by companies: About the Supreme Court ruling on February 8th 2018
  Analysis of the February 8th 2018 Supreme Court ruling
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• The time limit for filing a claim against a labour lender
  Regarding the high court sentence of 14 December 2017
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• Brief analysis of the ten new employment and social security measures included in the 2018 General State Budget Project
  Brief analysis of the ten new employment and social security measures included in the 2018 General State Budget Project
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• Andersen Tax & Legal strengthens its position in the ranking of The Legal 500 with six highlighted areas
  The editorial includes the firm in the Corporate, Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Public Law and Real Estate areas of the ranking
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• Approval of the Strategic Plan of the ITSS 2018 - 2010 and Royal Decree 192/2018, of 6 April, approving the statutes of the Autonomous Body of the ITSS State Agency
  Alfredo Aspra and José Antonio Sanfulgencio analyze the approval of the Strategic Plan of the ITSS 2018 - 2010 and Royal Decree 192/2018, of 6 April, approving the statutes of the Autonomous Body of the ITSS State Agency
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• Amendment of the Regulation on the implementation of company pension commitments to employees and beneficiaries

  On 10 February 2018, Royal Decree 62/2018, of 9 February, was published in the Official State Gazette of RD 62/2018, amending the Regulation on the implementation of companies' pension commitments to employees and beneficiaries

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• Chambers Highlights Andersen Tax & Legal in the Dispute Resolution and Corporate/M&A Areas of the 2018 Europe Guide

  The editorial includes Íñigo Rodríguez-Sastre as an outstanding lawyer in Dispute Resolution, Javier Mata in Insolvency, Alfredo Aspra in Labour and Javier Vinuesa in Tax

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• The limitation period for joint and several liabilities of the principal company is not interrupted by the wage claim made to the employer contractor

  Regarding the High Court decision of 5 December 2017

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• Employment Alert: Legal contribution rules for 2018

  Analysis of Order ESS/55/2018, of 26 January, which introduces the legal contribution rules for 2018

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• Employment Alert: Law 9/2017 on Public Sector Contracts

  This Law, of an administrative scope and whose entry into force is scheduled for March 9th of this year, introduces important new social and employment issues

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• Bonus in the last doctrine of the High Court of Justice of Madrid

  Review of the latest pronouncements of the judicial doctrine of the Employment Chamber of the Madrid Supreme Court of Justice regarding bonuses

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• New provisions on The Guaranteed Minimum Interprofessional Wage, Passive Classes, Labour Inspection and Special Scheme for Freelance Workers

  Brief analysis of the labour provisions published in the State Gazette on December 30, 2017

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• Null and Void Dismissal. Compensation for Moral Damage resulting from the Violation of Fundamental Rights

  Regarding the Supreme Court decision of 5^th October 2017

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• A hotchpotch of exclusive employment agreements and post-contractual non-competition agreements

  As regards the JSC Madrid of 27 March 2017

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• Severance pay for temporary personnel: Questions posed by the Supreme Court to the CJEU

  In relation to the Supreme Court judgement of 25 October 2017

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• Latest amendments to the Self-Employment Act

  Act 6/2017, of 24 October, on Urgent Self-Employment Reforms

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• Discrepancies between a draft contract and an employment contract

  The JSC Madrid of 19 July 2017

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• Disciplinary dismissal null and void due to disability and/or long-term temporary disability: The judgment of the SCJ Madrid of 8 March 2017

  Disciplinary dismissal null and void due to disability and/or long-term temporary disability: The judgment of the SCJ Madrid of 8 March 2017

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• The two CJEU judgments of 21 September 2017 and modifications of employment conditions: More modifications of interpretation or no modification?

  Analysis of the two CJEU judgments of 21 September 2017 and modifications of employment conditions: More modifications of interpretation or no modification?

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• Judgment handed down by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on 5 September 2017 on the control of e-mail use by employers

  Judgment handed down by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on 5 September 2017 in Barbulescu vs. Romania (app. 61496/08)

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• Collective dismissal and the existence of a group of trading companies

  Re the Decision of the Supreme Court of 19 July 2017

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• Labour compliance: The importance of corporate risk identification, analysis and management procedures

  The importance of Procedures for the identification, analysis and Management of Corporate Risks

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• Information to the employees’ legal representative in the event of workforce restructuring

  Re the Decision of the Supreme Court of 29 June 2017

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• Plural Employer: “Group Company” and “Employment Corporate Group”

  The Labour Chamber of the Supreme Court recently passed a judgement for doctrine unification resolving a termination of employment contract due to objective reasons (economic) with a favourable outcome for the complainant employee. 

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• Collective bargaining decisions that can be detrimental

  Concerning the Castile La Mancha Supreme Court Ruling of 22 March 2017

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• Concepts that should be included and excluded for calculating compensations due to termination of employment contracts

  Concerning the two judgements passed by the Supreme Court on 3 May 2017.

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• Development in Labour and Social Security Matter of Law 3/2017, of 27 June, of the General State Budgets for 2017

  Development in Labour and Social Security Matter Law 3/2017, of 27 June, of the General State Budgets for 2017

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• Compensation for work relocation. The details are important

  Analysis of the judgment of the High Court of Justice of Galicia of 7 April 2017 in relation to the need to pay particular attention to the wording of all types of document capable of giving rise to disputes when applied in practice

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• Thresholds of collective redundancy

  The calculation unit: the establishment and the undertaking. Regarding the Supreme Court Judgement issued in unification of case-law on 6 April 2017

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• Breach of the "principle of correspondence" does not make collective agreements void

  Analysis of the judgment of the Supreme Court of 23 February 2017 on the annulling of the collective agreement of Adaptalia

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• Regional High Court Judgment on the employer's obligation to provide a canteen

  Employer's obligation to provide a canteen (or alternative) if employees do not have two hours off.

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