María José Ramo is a partner of the Labor and Employment Law Department of Garrigues, in which firm she has pursued her professional career following a period at the law firm Lloréns Díaz de Aguilar and in the public sector.
She is the lawyer of choice for some of Spain’s leading companies on strategic and particularly complex aspects of employment law and human resources.
An expert in Litigation, she has over 25 years’ experience as counsel in complex judicial proceedings before the National High Court, and before the Labor Courts and Employment Chambers of the Regional High Courts and of the Supreme Court.
She has headed important corporate restructuring processes and has advised on and participated in collective bargaining at national and sectoral level.
She is highly specialized in legal issues relating to senior executives. Her doctoral thesis was on the special senior management employment relationship, for which she was awarded a distinction “Cum Laude”, as well as being the author of the monographic study “Senior Executives and Employer Withdrawal”, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, Madrid, 2017.
She is also a specialist in Equality and Diversity in the Workplace. She has prepared and participated in the negotiation of number Equality Plans of important companies. She is also the author of academic articles on this subject, published in prestigious specialized periodicals.
Furthermore, she teaches in renowned institutions. She currently lectures in Employment Litigation in the Master’s Degree for Access to the Legal Profession at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE) and in Senior Management in the Master’s Degree in Business Law at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
She is a habitual speaker at seminars and conferences organized by various universities, institutions and organizations such as OIT, ICADE, Fundación Rafael del Pino, CEOE, Madrid Bar Association, Instituto de Fomento Empresarial, AMMDE, Garrigues, etc.
María José Ramo is a member of the Management Board of the National Association of Labor Lawyers (ASNALA) and is a member of the Spanish Association of Labor and Social Security Law (AEDTSS).
Doctor of Law, Universidad Nebrija.
Law degree, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Master’s Degree in Master's Degree in Legal Counseling for Businesses, Instituto de Empresa (Madrid).
* Author of the monographic study “Senior Executives and Employer Withdrawal”, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, Madrid, 2017.
* Coauthor of the following collective works:
- “The family in recent case law of the Constitutional Court”, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, Madrid, 2019.
- “Social Security Law in the Case Law”, Ediciones Laborum, Madrid, 2018.
- “Legal handbook for engineers. Corporate directors’ liability”, Wolters Kluwer, 2018.
- “Constitutional Case Law on Employment and Social Security”, Volume XXXIII: 2016 and 2017, 1st ed., Thomson Reuters, 2018.
* Author of academic articles on Employment Law:
- “The mandatory observance of equality plans”, Revista Española del Derecho del Trabajo, no. 218, 2019.
- “Liability of directors, and other company executives, for labor debts”, Actualidad Jurídica Aranzadi, no. 935, 2017.
- “The Demise of Golden Parachutes in the Public Sector”, Actualidad Jurídica Aranzadi, 2016.
- “Employer withdrawal in Senior Management relations in the Public Sector after the 2012 reform”, Revista de Trabajo y Seguridad Social CEF, 2013.
*Author of numerous articles published in the national press and specialized newsletters on labor law matters, the following being the most recent:
- “After equality comes diversity”, Newsletter Garrigues Laboral, March 2019.
- “Penalties of the Labor Inspectorate for equality breaches will rise in the coming months”, Newsletter Garrigues Laboral, November 2018.
- “When the liability for debts to workers applies to directors and other company executives”, Newsletter Garrigues Empresa Familiar, October 2017.
- “The shareholder as director or executive in the Family Business: Law 31/2014 and executives. Contractual, remuneration and liability aspects”, Newsletter Garrigues Empresa Familiar, March 2015.