## [Labor Newsletter - September 2022](/en_GB/new/labor-newsletter-september-2022)
# Labor Newsletter - September 2022
Spain - 09 / 12 / 2022
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## [**Spain: Employment contracts following the reform**](https://www.garrigues.com/en_GB/new/spain-employment-contracts-following-reform)
**Federico Durán**
Now the labor reform is fully operative, its effects on employment and on employment contracts are starting to be delineated quite clearly. Looking beyond the objectives announced by the lawmakers and the aims sought by proponents of the change to the legislation, the behavior of the labor market allows us to identify the trends that will predictably take shape while the legal framework introduced by Royal Decree-Law 32/2021 is in effect.
[**KEEP READING**](https://www.garrigues.com/en_GB/new/spain-employment-contracts-following-reform)
### [NEWS](https://www.garrigues.com/sites/default/files/documents/labor_newsletter_-_september_2022.pdf#page=5)
- Government proposes a minimum wage increase amounting to 60% of Spanish average wage
- Government approves package of measures for energy saving, energy efficiency and reducing natural gas dependency
- Organic Law 10/2022 on the comprehensive guarantee of sexual freedom introduces rights and obligations in the labor law field
- New contribution system based on earnings from self-employment approved and Government considers raising social security maximum contribution base
- Law encouraging occupational pension plans published
- New comprehensive law for equal treatment and non-discrimination also applies in the employment context
- Measures laid down for monitoring animal welfare at abattoirs by installing video surveillance systems
- Spanish council of ministers approves Bill for Organic Law, which includes the right to leave for medical symptoms caused by incapacitating menstrual periods
- Household employees to have unemployment benefit
- Extension of restrictions for layoffs linked to grounds arising from the war in Ukraine
- CJEU advocate general concludes that employer has to pay the cost of a worker’s corrective lenses to continue working with display screens
[**VIEW MORE**](https://www.garrigues.com/sites/default/files/documents/labor_newsletter_-_september_2022.pdf#page=5)
### [**JUDGEMENTS**](https://www.garrigues.com/sites/default/files/documents/labor_newsletter_-_september_2022.pdf#page=7)
- Supreme Court reiterates that it is lawful to readjust time off work for union duties for union delegates where size of workforce reduces
- Existence of proof breaching fundamental rights in a dismissal proceeding may result in dismissal being held null and void or unjustified depending on its connection with termination of the employment contract
- Unilateral reduction of pay supplement is a breach of employer’s salary obligation and worker’s right to claim it does not become statute-barred
- National Social Court holds to be invalid a clause requiring workers to provide personal email addresses to employer
- Justified dismissal of employee who took leave that had been denied when requested from employer
- Madrid High Court ratifies dismissal on the ground of engaging in private activities during remote working hours
[**VER MÁS**](http://www.garrigues.com/sites/default/files/documents/labor_newsletter_-_september_2022.pdf#page=7)
### **GARRIGUES SUSTAINABLE - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT**
[**A guide to prepare gender-sensitive pay audits is published**](https://www.garrigues.com/en_GB/new/guide-prepare-gender-sensitive-pay-audits-published)
The Ministry of Equality has prepared, together with the Ministry of Employment and employee and employer representatives, an informative document that seeks to facilitate compliance with pay audit obligations.
[**The EU reaches provisional political deal on balanced gender representation on the boards of listed companies**](https://www.garrigues.com/en_GB/new/eu-reaches-provisional-political-deal-balanced-gender-representation-boards-listed-companies)
Listed companies should aim to have at least 40% of non-executive director positions filled by members of the under-represented sex, or 33% of all director positions, including executive directors. The deal also sets out guidelines for selection processes.
### **ARTICLES FROM THE LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT BLOG**
- [Dismissal null and void due to a cold?](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/dismissal-null-and-void-due-to-a-cold)
- [How does the Government’s energy efficiency plan affect heating and air conditioning at companies? Questions from the labor point of view](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/how-does-the-governments-energy-efficiency-plan-affect-heating-and-air-conditioning-at-companies-questions-from-the-labor-point-of-view)
- [What role can companies play in the area of mental health?](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/what-role-can-companies-play-in-the-area-of-mental-health)
- [Bicycles for public servants: energy saving measures in the Administration](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/bicycles-for-public-servants-energy-saving-measures-in-the-administration)
- [New changes coming in relation to conciliation](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/new-changes-coming-in-relation-to-conciliation)
- [Yes, to social taxonomy, but no to the burdens: the big new challenge for companies](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/yes-to-social-taxonomy-but-no-to-the-burdens-the-big-new-challenge-for-companies)
- [Personal days: keys to determining whether they are recoverable days and whether they are to be included for calculating fulfillment of the maximum annual working hours](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/personal-days-keys-to-determining-whether-they-are-recoverable-days-and-whether-they-are-to-be-included-for-calculating-fulfillment-of-the-maximum-annual-working-hours-2)
- [Employer of record: the intermediary that makes it easier to hire employees in other jurisdictions](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/employer-of-record-the-intermediary-that-makes-it-easier-to-hire-employees-in-other-jurisdictions)
- [Diversity and equality make their way into companies](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/diversity-and-equality-make-their-way-into-companies)
- [Celebration of World Refugee Day: regulation recognizing their right to work](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/world-refugee-day-right-to-work)
- [Private investigators and video surveillance: a new variation giving greater leeway to the practice of monitoring workers on CCTV](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/private-investigators-and-video-surveillance-a-new-variation-giving-greater-leeway-to-the-practice-of-monitoring-workers-on-cctv)
- [“For the love of green”: labor law will be greener than ever](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/for-the-love-of-green-labor-law-will-be-greener-than-ever)
- [Total or absolute permanent disability automatically terminates employment contracts](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/total-or-absolute-permanent-disability-automatically-terminates-employment-contracts)
- [Paternity leave under the legal spotlight](https://bloglaboral.garrigues.com/en/paternity-leave-under-the-legal-spotlight)
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