Labor and employment matters have become key to business management and leadership in the fast-moving and complex environment in which local and international organizations operate.
The Garrigues Labor and Employment Law service boasts a team of professionals with proven experience and is a leader in all labor and employment law specialties in the countries in which it operates. We advise on all labor, employment and social security specialties.
Our advisory services are characterized by our professional commitment to our clients, our service vocation, our involvement and knowledge of the business of each sector and each client, the constant search for innovative and custom solutions, with a practical and strategic focus that delivers added value, and our cross-cutting and insightful approach.
The excellence of our extensive labor and employment team and its broad expertise secure our position at the forefront of business law advisory services and value-added legal practice and know-how. We are also opinion makers and innovators.
We harness the latest technologies to expedite our work and facilitate interaction with clients.
Our services
Comprehensive advice
Employment contracts (ordinary and senior management); compensation and benefits; social security contributions; internal policies and protocols (remote working, recording of working time, digital disconnection, use of IT systems and work tools, policies to prevent bullying and sexual harassment, corporate social responsibility, whistleblowing and labor-related compliance, etc.); work/life balance; supplementary employee welfare; flexible working measures; international assignments; occupational risk prevention.
Business restructuring
Design and implementation of temporary and definitive measure to secure the future viability of businesses (collective dismissals, temporary layoffs (ERTE), RED mechanisms, voluntary redundancy plans, etc.)
Litigation
Defense of client interests at all instances and in all matter brought before the labor and judicial review courts.
Collective bargaining
Collective labor agreements and company agreements, standardization of conditions, material modification of working conditions, collective transfers, etc.
Effective equality and diversity measures
Equality plans, sexual and gender-based harassment protocols, and other policies and measures to promote equal treatment and opportunities in the workplace, shared parental responsibility, and to enable employees to balance their personal, family and work life.
Labor due diligence
Review of compliance with labor and employment law, whether as a preventive measure or as a result of corporate transactions.
Labor aspects of corporate sustainability and due diligence strategies and ESG compliance
Preparation of policies and evaluation of steps and measures to be implemented by companies. Advice on the preparation, implementation and review of the due diligence procedure and compliance with labor-related ESG criteria.
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Publications
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.
Portugal: Meal allowance amount increases to € 6.00
Ordinance no.107-A/2023, of April 18th was published in the Official Gazette (Diário da República), increasing, from € 5.20 to € 6.00, the meal allowance amount for civil servants.
The European Parliament approves the proposal for a directive on the pay gap
The European Parliament approves the proposal for a directive to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay between men and women with the aim to close the pay gap.
Decent Work Agenda in Portugal: Main changes to labor legislation come into force on May 1, 2023
Law no. 13/2023 of 3 April has been published in the Official Gazette, introducing amendments to the Labor Code, Law no. 105/2009 of 14 September (Labor Code Regulation), Decree-Law no. 66/2011 of 1 June and the Social Security Contributions Code.