As we enter the annus horibilis of 2012, we are witnessing a significant effort by the Portuguese Government to try to overcome the crisis and to finally tackle Portugal’s Labour market, which is long due for reform. Indicative is the new law on severance compensation for different types of employment agreements. It is based on […]
The severe economic crisis, rising unemployment and the austerity measures resulting from the Memorandum signed between the Portuguese Government and the EC, IMF and ECB have placed great pressure upon labour legislation in Portugal. Both
The 2011 Portuguese budget includes a controversial pay cut to civil servants’ salaries of at least 5% to those earning more than €1,500 per month. Only time will tell if these measures will have the desired impact on
Spain’s Workers’ Statute, at the time of its enactment, no doubt served a pivotal role of stability in the Spanish labour market. One of the main objectives then was to break with the previous
The first corporate codes of conduct (Codes) came into being in the 1970s but it was not until the 1990s that, as a result of globalisation, they became commonplace. Large companies started to publish Codes
Various positive measures are now available as alternatives to making redundancies. Rather than provide an analysis of the various measures as outlined in Article 51 of the Spanish Workers Statute here we set out some of
The Audiencia Nacional Employment Chamber judgment of 25 February 2009 confirmed in Spain the legality of the dual scale of rights (mainly in relation to salary) regulated by the current CLH (Tierra) collective bargaining agreement.
The Spanish impatriate tax regime, enacted in 2004, also known as the ‘Beckham Law’ – as football player David Beckham was one of the first individuals to apply it – was amended with effect from January 1, 2010, despite pressure
The question of whether an employer can run background checks and require medical examinations from job applicants has been an issue in Portugal for some time. It becomes even more complex when we need to
The current financial and economic crisis is affecting the performance of many companies and employers have inevitably felt the need to implement cost-saving measures.
