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Terminating a pregnant worker’s employment during the probationary period

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 22 2009

Under Spanish law, the dismissal of a pregnant employee will generally be found to be invalid, with the consequent obligation on the employer to reinstate the employee to her job and to pay her the wages that would have been due to her from the dismissal until the date of the judgment

Swearing at your boss may be OK in Spain!

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

Following a decision by Catalunya’s Superior Court of Justice earlier in the year, it seems that serious verbal abuse of a more senior colleague may not always be a ground for dismissal

Courts required to assess of their own motion whether terms fair under UTCCR 1999

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

In a reference from the Spanish courts in the case of Asturcom Telecomunicaciones SL v Maria Cristina Rodriguez Nogueira, the ECJ has considered whether, in proceedings involving a term in a consumer contract, a national court must consider of its own motion whether that term is unfair within the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive (9313EEC) (the Directive

ECJ case watch

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 4 2007

It looks as though the UK’s mandatory retirement age of 65 and the duty-to-consider procedure under the Age Regulations are set to stay (at least for now) following the European Court of Justice’s judgment in the Spanish age discrimination case of Palacios v Cortefiel Servicios SA