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Publications - Labor and Employment

  • Labor Newsletter - July 2023

    En este nuevo número de nuestra Newsletter Laboral, contamos con un nuevo artículo de Federico Durán y repasamos las principales novedades, normativa y sentencias de las últimas semanas.

  • Spain: These are the social security rules applicable to workers relocated abroad

    A new piece of legislation defines in detail the cases in which relocated workers will be treated as having registered status for social security purposes, such as in the absence of a bilateral agreement, where such an agreement does not apply to…

  • Spain: Royal Decree 668/2023 amends the regulations on pension plans and funds

    The royal decree contains, among other new legislation, implementation of the rules on simplified occupational pension plans, the rules on the non-discrimination principle and the provisions on merging plans where corporate transactions result in…

  • Spain: The Royal Decree implementing the RED Mechanism provides that closures of work centers will require six months’ notice

    The RED Mechanism for employment flexibility and stabilization created in the recent labor reform allows measures for the reduction of working hours and suspension of employment contracts. The legislation also amends the regulations governing…

  • Portugal: Creation and regulation of the AVANÇAR program

    This program grants financial support to employers who enter open-ended employment contracts with young unemployed persons aged 35 or under.

  • Portugal: Decent Work Agenda New Regulation

    The Decent Work Agenda consists of a reform of labour relations that includes measures to improve working conditions and, simultaneously, facilitate the conciliation of employees' professional and family life.

  • End of the extraordinary measures implemented in the workplace due to COVID-19

    The order declares the end of health crisis and the termination of the extraordinary measures such as those related to the minimum interpersonal safety distance of 1.5 meters between workers or the promotion of teleworking, among others.

  • Spain: Options for paid leave and 'à la carte' working hours are broadened and other employment measures relating to work-life balance are approved

    Royal Decree-Law 5/2023 transposes, among others, the EU Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers which, before the end of the legislative session, was passing through parliament as the Families Bill.  

  • Spain: Basic equality and diversity obligations at a glance

    The proliferation of equality and diversity regulations has meant that companies need to remain attentive to a whole set of obligations. 

  • Spain: Publication of the V Agreement for Employment and Collective Bargaining (V AENC)

    The agreement is signed by CEOE and CEPYME, and the labor unions CC.OO. and UGT, and its objective is to promote collective bargaining.

  • Whistleblowing channels at companies in Spain: the key aspects of the new law protecting whistleblowers from all angles

    The law protecting whistleblowers in Spain requires companies with 50 or more workers to have an internal whistleblowing system in place and sets out fines of up to €1,000,000. 

  • Spain - The labor framework: between legislative chaos and demolition of the traditional labor relations model

    In 2022 alone and so far in 2023, there have been at least ten important legislative amendments to labor and employment matters in laws which are not not specifically labor-related. And there are a few bills in the works which will also establish…