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Equal treatment between women and men

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • April 30 2007

The new law on equal treatment between women and men (the Law) entered into force on 23 March 2007

Control of employees’ working hours: use of new technologies does not breach employee’s privacy or personal integrity - judgment of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • February 5 2008

The regional government of Cantabria introduced a mechanism of controlling employees’ working hours whereby a biometric identification system takes a reading of the hand and records it in a database, allowing the administration to monitor the hours between the arrival and the departure of each employee

New Regulations for workers in the Spanish domestic sector

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • February 14 2008

The Spanish Ministry of Labour has sent draft new Regulations concerning employees working in the domestic sector to the most prominent trade unions and employer associations in Spain

Unfair competition by former employees

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • March 12 2008

The Spanish High Court rendered a Judgement on 8 October 2007 that declared that the behaviour of a group of employees that left the company for which they had worked, set up a new company, and attracted the clients of their former company by using its lists of clients and contract models was unfair, ordering them to compensate their former company for the losses and damages caused

Spanish sub-contractors in the news again

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • September 28 2007

At the end of August 2007 the Spanish Government approved further legislation aimed at both reducing the number of accidents at work and promoting stability of employment in the Spanish construction sector

New definition of self-employed worker in Spain

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • September 28 2007

Under Spanish law, self-employed workers are defined as “those persons who carry out a trade or profession for economic gain on a regular, personal and direct basis on their own account, in the absence of any supervision or direction from a third party, whether or not they employ other workers on another’s account”

Heart attack suffered at the work place during working hours

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • October 9 2007

The employee suffered a heart attack at the work place during working hours

Working time in road transport activities (amendment legislation)

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • October 9 2007

Prior to the new legal framework for drivers, effective working time only comprised time spent driving or carrying out other similarly active services

Informing and consulting employees in the European Union - failure of the Kingdom of Spain to fulfil its obligations

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Spain
  • -
  • October 9 2007

The Court held that Spain failed to adopt the necessary measures to transpose the Directive 200214CE, establishing a general framework for informing and consulting employees in the European Community

Statute covering self-employed workers due to come into force on 12 October 2007

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • October 9 2007

The current legal framework for self-employed workers has been developed by the Labour Courts on a case-by-case basis