Legal 500 EMEA 2025
The prestigious legal directory Legal 500 has published today the results of its rankings in the Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 2025 guide, recognizing Araoz & Rueda as one of the leading law firms in Spain. In this edition, we have achieved a remarkable presence with 7 recommended areas and 10 recommended […]
Chambers Europe 2025
The prestigious legal directory Chambers and Partners has just published the results of its rankings in the Chambers Europe 2025 guide, recognizing Araoz & Rueda as one of the leading law firms in Spain. In this edition, we have achieved a remarkable presence with 8 recommended areas, three of which have been ranked at the […]
La transmisión de una notaría susceptible de sucesión de empresa
Coto a los ‘contratos basura’ de los socorristas
La sentencia que revoluciona la indemnización por despido
The new Spanish Startups Law: Special reference to stock options, carried interest and digital nomads regime
In Spain, an incipient ecosystem of emerging companies has developed for the last years driven by the success of digital companies born from small innovative projects, by the access to a vast knowledge and data on the Internet and advances in scientific and technical fields. This new economy is an important lever for growth and […]
Main social measures in defense of employment introduced by RDL 18/2020, of May 12
On 13 May, Royal Decree-Law 18/2020, of 12 May, on social measures to protect employment (“RDL 18/2020”) entered into force. Below is a summary of the main measures implemented by RDL 18/2020: 1. Specific measures in the field of temporary layoffs (expediente de regulación temporal de empleo or “ERTEs”) due to force majeure: The duration […]
Recoverable paid leave for employees providing non-essential services
As part of the state of alarm decreed by the Spanish government on 14 March 2020 for managing the public health crisis caused by COVID-19, the government has decided to further reduce the mobility of the population by approving Royal Decree Law 10/2020 of March 29, which regulates recoverable paid leave for employees providing non-essential […]
Complementary labour measures to mitigate the effects of COVID-19
On 28 March 2020, the Spanish Government has extended the state of alarm by 15 additional days (until 11 April 2020, inclusive). On the same day, Royal Decree-Law 9/2020, of March 27, 2020, adopting additional measures, in the field of employment, to soften the effects of COVID-19 (“RDL 9/2020”), was published. These new measures are […]
Temporary employment suspension of employment contracts and reduction in working hours
Download the PDF document here Nowadays, many companies are being forced to take/adopt measures to cope with the impact of Covid-19. From an employment-law perspective, among other measures, the vast majority of companies will have no choice but to carry out temporary layoffs based on suspension of employment contracts and reduction in working hours […]