Legal Updates

Legal Updates – Employment Area- October 2024 Royal Decree 1026/2024, of 8 October, developing a planned set of mandatory measures with the aim of ensuring the real and effective equality and non-discrimination of LGBTI people in businesses has been published. The main agreed measures, in the employment area, are covered below: I. CONTENT AND AIMS […]

Legal Updates – Public and Regulatory Area – February 2024 The Supreme Court will soon establish significant jurisprudence regarding the liability of Public Administrations for cartels orchestrated around public tenders. The Order of 12 February 2024 (rec. 8302/2023, hereinafter, the “Order”) has admitted the appeal that our Firm (Escalona & de Fuentes) has prepared, in

Legal Updates –Employment Area– July 2023 Royal Decree-Law 5/2023 of 28 June, which adopts and extends certain measures in response to the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine, supports the reconstruction of the island of La Palma and other situations of vulnerability, transposing European Union directives on structural changes to commercial companies

Legal Updates – Employment Area – May 2023 AGREEMENT ON EMPLOYMENT AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING This May the long awaited V Agreement on Employment and Collective Bargaining (“AENC”), has been signed by CEOE and CEPYME, on the business side, and CCOO and UGT, the most representative trade unions at the national level [representing the employees]. This Agreement is

Legal Update– Employment Area– May 2023 Law 3/2023, of 28 February, known as the Law on Employment, has repealed section d) of article 148 of the Law Regulating Company Jurisdiction. For Companies this means significant amendments to the definition of “false self-employed persons”. In short, it can be concluded that the previous system was much more advantageous